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ˈpea-ˌjacket
Also 8 pay-, 9 pee-, P-jacket.
[The first element is evidently the same as pee n.1 (pe, pey, P), (which however is not evidenced after the 17th c., but may have come down later in the comb. pe- or py-gown). Pea-jacket may have been on the analogy of the latter, or may have been formed direct from Du. pij-jakker. It is very common in the New Jersey Archives, 1725–40.
Marryat's notion that the original form was P.-jacket, for pilot-jacket, appears to be a mere gratuitous surmise.]
A stout short overcoat of coarse woollen cloth, now commonly worn by sailors.
1721Amer. Weekly Mercury 23 Mar. 2/2 Clothed with a double-breasted Pee-Jacket. 1725N. Jersey Archives (1894) XI. 97 Run away,..a Servant Lad Named Philip Dawsitt, he..had on a Kersey Pea-Jacket. 1727Ibid. 124 Run away..a Servant Man,..he has on..a dark Drugget Pea Jacket. 1757Mem. of Last War in N. America 8 The Consumption..made of their coarse Woollens by the Men employed in the Fishery, reckoning for each a Blanket, Watch Coat, Rug, Pea-Jacket, etc. 1786Francis the Philanthropist I. 77 He ventured to remark, that no other coat than a pay-jacket could become a sea-boy. 1798Hull Advertiser 24 Nov. 2/2 He had on a sailor's blue pea jacket. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pea, or Pee-jacket, a loose rough jacket or short covering; much used in severe weather by mariners... It was formerly the holiday outer-dress of the keelmen. 1833Marryat P. Simple x, The men..wore pea jackets, which are very short great coats made of what they call Flushing. 1840― Poor Jack xxii, A short P-jacket (so called from the abbreviation of pilot's jacket) reached down to just above his knees. 1848A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall III. xv. 301 A dubious, sidelong glance at my splashed, grey trousers and rough P jacket. 1898F. H. Smith C. West iii. 36 He had left his pea-jacket in the cabin. 1922W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xlvii. 186 A pea-jacket such as you see in Leech's pictures of the sea-faring man. 1968Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. 1/1 A long⁓haired Berkeley student wearing a Kill for Peace button in the lapel of his black pea jacket. 1976Time 20 Dec. 17/1 In his Navy pea jacket and worn brown boots,..Jordan loped down the Senate halls, looking like the country boy he tries hard to remain. |
单词 peake-devant 释义 peake-devantvariant of picke-devant Obs.{var l=document.getElements......