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mackinaw

[ mak-uh-naw ]

/ ˈmæk əˌnɔ /

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noun

a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.

Also called Mackinaw coat, mackinaw coat.

Origin of mackinaw

First recorded in 1755–65; spelling variant of Mackinac

OTHER WORDS FROM mackinaw

mack·i·nawed, adjective

Words nearby mackinaw

mackerel shark, mackerel sky, mackerras, mackinac, mackinac bridge, mackinaw, mackinaw blanket, mackinaw boat, mackinaw coat, mackinaw trout, mackinder

Example sentences from the Web for mackinaw

The crew of the Mackinaw boat arose and cheered, the patron firing his pistol into the air.

Bring Me His Ears |Clarence E. Mulford
They got valuable stores at Mackinaw, too; among them seven hundred packages of costly furs.

Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters |Martha Finley
This is but little over one-third the surface drained of agricultural products toward the Straits of Mackinaw.

Old Mackinaw |W. P. Strickland.
I spoke in one of my former letters of the manifest fate of Mackinaw, which is to be a watering-place.

Letters of a Traveller |William Cullen Bryant

Tied to the pier, a saucy twenty-six-foot Mackinaw boat, much like the Spray, bobbed up and down.

The Spell of the White Sturgeon |James Arthur Kjelgaard