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Definition of mackintosh in English: mackintosh(also macintosh) noun ˈmakɪntɒʃˈmækənˌtɑʃ British 1A full-length waterproof coat. 〈英〉麦金托什雨衣 Example sentencesExamples - I sat on my haunches, watching, no longer cold and soaked, my undercoat still dry and snug as a mackintosh.
- I had 35 shillings wrapped up in a hankie in my mackintosh pocket.
- After the war, Miss Stuart's costume ‘is covered, winter and summer, by a frayed macintosh… and she now wears a hat as well - a thing like a basket pulled down over her straying, pepper-and-salt hair’.
- One of the things I most liked having was a mackintosh, sou'wester and gum boots.
- His face broke into a grin when he saw Ruth coated with a similar mackintosh.
- At the annual Agricultural and Horse Show at Moreton-in-Marsh on Saturday it was advisable to wear gum boots and have a mackintosh handy for the next storm.
- Ruth deposited her wet mackintosh on the floor and went upstairs, shivering every now and then.
- I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
- Morning by morning in a mackintosh and cap, in which he was not seen at other times, he found his way across the bridge to the New Court baths.
- He was clean shaven, with short grey hair and wore a smart macintosh coat and black shoes.
- Riders competing in the jumping classes braved the rain, put on their macintoshes and carried on.
- I saw someone, wearing a mackintosh, come up the hill.
- Went to London today and wore the big macintosh which makes me look rather larger than normal (very useful in trains when people are choosing which of the remaining seats to take for themselves).
- ‘She forgot her mackintosh and got soaked,’ Clarissa said evenly.
- She had to borrow a plastic mackintosh from a friend to avoid embarrassment at the police station where she was to be interviewed.
- Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
- It shows a man in a grey mackintosh, surrounded by archaic listening equipment.
- The ‘official uniform’ consisted of a blue skirt and walking bloomers, a white blouse, a hat, walking shoes, a mackintosh, and a sweater.
- Jim Gordon cuts a weatherbeaten figure, with his tired eyes and battered mackintosh.
- The cold, damp winters require heavy coats, mackintoshes (rain-coats), and warm woolen clothes.
Synonyms raincoat, overcoat, gaberdine, trench coat anorak, cagoule, cape, oilskin, waterproof British pakamac British informal mac North American informal slicker trademark Burberry, Drizabone - 1.1dated mass noun, usually as modifier Cloth waterproofed with rubber.
防水胶布 Example sentencesExamples - I ordered the macintosh jacket I've been wanting for a while now.
- The macintosh jacket is updated with delicate details such as a belted collar and flower-print lining.
- During my usual mid-morning stroll along Bond Street, London, I noticed I was being followed by a short man wearing what appeared to be the lining of a dogs basket cut into the shape of a macintosh jacket.
- Can someone care to explain what are the differences between a trench coat, a rain coat, a macintosh coat and a walking coat?
OriginMid 19th century: named after Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), the Scottish inventor who patented the cloth. This word for a waterproof garment was named after Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), the Scottish inventor who patented the waterproof cloth of the original mackintosh, made of two layers of cloth bonded together by India rubber dissolved in naphtha. The abbreviation mac is found from the early 20th century. The Apple Macintosh computer has nothing to do with waterproofs, but was named after a popular North American apple, the McIntosh, with a slight change of spelling for legal reasons.
Definition of mackintosh in US English: mackintosh(also macintosh) nounˈmakənˌtäSHˈmækənˌtɑʃ British 1A full-length waterproof coat. 〈英〉麦金托什雨衣 Example sentencesExamples - I saw someone, wearing a mackintosh, come up the hill.
- Ruth deposited her wet mackintosh on the floor and went upstairs, shivering every now and then.
- Morning by morning in a mackintosh and cap, in which he was not seen at other times, he found his way across the bridge to the New Court baths.
- Jim Gordon cuts a weatherbeaten figure, with his tired eyes and battered mackintosh.
- At the annual Agricultural and Horse Show at Moreton-in-Marsh on Saturday it was advisable to wear gum boots and have a mackintosh handy for the next storm.
- ‘She forgot her mackintosh and got soaked,’ Clarissa said evenly.
- I had 35 shillings wrapped up in a hankie in my mackintosh pocket.
- The cold, damp winters require heavy coats, mackintoshes (rain-coats), and warm woolen clothes.
- His face broke into a grin when he saw Ruth coated with a similar mackintosh.
- One of the things I most liked having was a mackintosh, sou'wester and gum boots.
- After the war, Miss Stuart's costume ‘is covered, winter and summer, by a frayed macintosh… and she now wears a hat as well - a thing like a basket pulled down over her straying, pepper-and-salt hair’.
- Went to London today and wore the big macintosh which makes me look rather larger than normal (very useful in trains when people are choosing which of the remaining seats to take for themselves).
- It shows a man in a grey mackintosh, surrounded by archaic listening equipment.
- Riders competing in the jumping classes braved the rain, put on their macintoshes and carried on.
- He was clean shaven, with short grey hair and wore a smart macintosh coat and black shoes.
- The ‘official uniform’ consisted of a blue skirt and walking bloomers, a white blouse, a hat, walking shoes, a mackintosh, and a sweater.
- I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
- I sat on my haunches, watching, no longer cold and soaked, my undercoat still dry and snug as a mackintosh.
- She had to borrow a plastic mackintosh from a friend to avoid embarrassment at the police station where she was to be interviewed.
- Clad in a nightdress, boots (no socks) and a mackintosh, I am swept along by the crowd running before the speeding police jeeps until we are surrounded on all sides by heavily armed police.
Synonyms raincoat, overcoat, gaberdine, trench coat - 1.1dated usually as modifier Cloth waterproofed with rubber.
防水胶布 Example sentencesExamples - Can someone care to explain what are the differences between a trench coat, a rain coat, a macintosh coat and a walking coat?
- I ordered the macintosh jacket I've been wanting for a while now.
- The macintosh jacket is updated with delicate details such as a belted collar and flower-print lining.
- During my usual mid-morning stroll along Bond Street, London, I noticed I was being followed by a short man wearing what appeared to be the lining of a dogs basket cut into the shape of a macintosh jacket.
OriginMid 19th century: named after Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), the Scottish inventor who patented the cloth. |