lumber jacket
- noun
- /ˈlʌmbər ˈdʒækɪt/
- US
:
chaqueta de leñador
- During the outdoor festival, everyone admired the stylish lumber jackets on display.
Examples
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The hiker wore a warm lumber jacket to stay cozy in the chilly mountain air.
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He was short and stocky and slept in a red-and-black checked lumber jacket, his arms over his chest and hands tucked in the armpits.
Fiction book (1992) -
My parents, side by side in front of the fireplace, were talking to a big man in a lumber jacket.
Fiction book (1999) -
After a long day of chopping wood, he took off his lumber jacket and relaxed by the fire.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A short coat that reaches the waist or hips and fastens at the front
3
3.9
A short warm jacket with a red and black checked pattern for outdoor work
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly compositional: a learner can infer from 'lumber' + 'jacket' that it is a jacket associated with lumber/lumberjacks (i.e., workwear), so the general idea of a work/outer jacket is accessible. However, 'lumber' more often denotes 'wood' (which can confuse learners) and the specific stylistic conventions (short, plaid wool garment) are conventional and not strictly derivable from the parts, so full meaning is not fully predictable.
Etymology
Lumber jacket comes from the jackets worn by people who worked with lumber and needed a warm jacket while cutting wood. Those workers often wore short, heavy plaid coats to keep warm, so today lumber jacket means 'a short, warm outer jacket', often in plaid.