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pea jacket

 
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–noun
1. a short coat of thick wool, usually double-breasted and navy in color, worn by seamen, fishermen, etc.
2. a jacket or short coat styled like this, worn by adults and children.
Also called peacoat, pea coat.

Origin:
1715–25, Americanism; 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) + jacket; perh. modeled on Fris (N dial.) pijekkat
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Word Origin & History

pea jacket 
1721, loan-translation of N.Fris. pijekkat, from Du. pijjekker, from pij "coarse woolen cloth" + jekker "jacket."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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