pea jacket
- noun
- /piː ˈdʒækɪt/
:
chaqueta de marinero
- The sailor tightened the buttons of his pea jacket against the cold wind at sea.
Examples
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The next morning, back home after breakfasting at the diner, he hung his dark blue pea jacket in a closet bursting with Adriana's coats: a winter coat, a rain coat, a green coat, a leopard coat. Who were all these women?
Fiction book (1999) -
My grandfather will be as lithe as a salmon; he will be a fisherman all his life and will sew his pea jacket with sequins like the scales of the fish that leap into his boat, recognizing one of their own.
Fiction book (1996) -
Henderson, in his massive pea jacket, his oft-healed hands, a neatly packed duffel like a rolled sail across his shoulder.
Fiction book (1996) -
Someone like all the other girls who picked you up after band practice, or who drove a carful of you and your hysterically giggling friends to the mall, sitting up front alone like a poker-faced chauffeur in a pea jacket.
Fiction book (2000) -
They both wear visored caps with earflaps, furry with snowflakes on top, high-laced boots, pea jackets, and dark cotton work gloves.
Fiction book (1995) -
He put on his pea jacket to stay warm while walking along the shore.
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Wearing a classic pea jacket, she felt ready to face the winter chill.
Synonyms
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1.0
A short coat that reaches the waist or hips and fastens at the front
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3.4
A heavy wool jacket with two rows of buttons originally worn by sailors
How Structured
Surface Forms
Morphology
pea + jacket
The meaning 'a heavy double-breasted naval coat' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'pea' (the vegetable) and 'jacket' because 'pea' here is etymological/lexicalized (from Dutch pij) and does not contribute its ordinary meaning. A B1 learner who knows the words would not predict this nautical garment sense, so the expression is idiomatic and not compositionally transparent.
Etymology
Pea jacket may come from the Dutch word 'pij', the name for a thick wool cloth sailors wore, and English ears turned 'pij' into pea. That heavy cloth made a short jacket with two rows of buttons for cold weather on ships, so pea jacket came to mean the warm sailor's coat we use today.