Meaning of oilskins | Babel Free

Definitions

A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.

plural, plural-only

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Examples

“The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.”

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