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mackintosh
1[mak-in-tosh]
noun
a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
such cloth.
Chiefly British.any raincoat.
Mackintosh
2[mak-in-tosh]
noun
Charles Rennie 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
mackintosh
1/ ˈæɪˌɒʃ /
noun
a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized cloth
such cloth
any raincoat
Mackintosh
2/ ˈæɪˌɒʃ /
noun
Sir Cameron ( Anthony ). born 1946, British producer of musicals and theatre owner; his productions include Cats (1981), Les Misérables (1985), Miss Saigon (1987), and My Fair Lady (2001)
Charles Rennie. 1868–1928, Scottish architect and artist, exponent of the Art Nouveau style; designer of the Glasgow School of Art (1896)
Other Word Forms
- mackintoshed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mackintosh1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mackintosh1
Example Sentences
“She wore what she was told without argument, apart from a long, drab mackintosh that she loathed,” Crawford wrote in her controversial memoir, “The Little Princesses.”
She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching, assisted in removing Edna’s dripping mackintosh.
She was doing a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in the mid-2010s when she saw a red mackintosh from the 1960s.
As you might sense, Ireland’s own James Joyce lurks in the corners of such prose, like the mysterious man in the mackintosh of “Ulysses.”
He came towards me though, he began to help me off with my mackintosh.
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