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pea jacket
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pea jacket has 1 sense
- pea jacket(n = noun.artifact) peacoat - a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket; Array is a kind of jacket
CIDE DICTIONARY
pea jacket, n. [Prob. fr. D. pij, pije, a coat of a coarse woolen stuff.]. [Prob. fr. D. pij, pije, a coat of a coarse woolen stuff.].
A thick loose double-breasted woolen jacket, or coat, commonly worn by sailors in cold weather. [1913 Webster]
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