field jacket
English
Noun
field jacket (plural field jackets)
- A military or military-style jacket made of fabric (wool or cotton).
- 1944, Ernie Pyle, chapter 15, in Brave Men, New York: Henry Holt, page 231:
- The morning was raw, yet he wore only summer khaki trousers, a light Army field jacket and, of all things, tennis shoes. He was shivering.
- 2007, Aidan Delgado, The Sutras of Abu Ghraib, Boston: Beacon Press, Part 4, p. 160:
- One of the MP sergeants, in an uncommon act of kindness, strips off his own field jacket and lays it over the prisoner with the injured legs, as no one else seems ready to help him.
- A covering used by paleontologists to protect fossils, usually made of plaster and burlap.
Derived terms
- field-jacketed
Translations
type of jacket
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covering used by paleontologists
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