Definitions for pea jacket
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pea′ jack`et(n.)
a short, double-breasted coat of navy-blue wool, worn by seamen.
Category: Clothing
any jacket or short coat resembling this.
Category: Clothing
Ref: Also called peacoat.
Origin of pea jacket:
1715–25, Amer.; pea, var. sp. of pay, pee, pie coat of coarse woolen cloth (late ME pee, pey, pie; akin to D pij, dial. Fris pey, dial. Sw paje); perh. modeled on Fris (N Fris) pijekkat
Princeton's WordNet
pea jacket, peacoat(noun)
a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket
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