pea jacket
noun
a short coat of thick wool, usually double-breasted and navy in color, worn by seamen, fishermen, etc.
a jacket or short coat styled like this, worn by adults and children.
Also called
peacoat,
pea coat.
Origin of pea jacket
1715–25,
Americanism;
pea, variant spelling of
pay, pee, pie coat of coarse woolen cloth (late Middle English
pee, pey, pie; akin to Dutch
pij, dialectal Frisian
pey, dialectal Swedish
paje) +
jacket; perhaps modeled on Frisian (N dial.)
pijekkat
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British Dictionary definitions for pea jacket
pea jacket
peacoat
/ (ˈpiːˌkəʊt) /
noun
a sailor's short heavy double-breasted overcoat of navy wool
Word Origin for pea jacket
C18: from Dutch
pijjekker, from
pij coat of coarse cloth +
jekker jacket