Meaning of peajacketed | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

““I would see the commander of this vessel,” the lady said, after having paused at the gangway a few moments, and cast a most inquisitorial glance around her and upon the half dozen or so peajacketed gentlemen of the quarter-deck present.”

““I don’t see what good she’d do us: we’re Government employees,” Ford said, his face paling with sudden premonition as he stared at the peajacketed little man in sou’wester and sea boots—Welsh’s idea of proper “sky pilot” costume.”

“One immaculate looking limousine, seven-passenger, produced a handsome young man of twenty-five who carefully laid out the carcases of a dozen and a half roasting fowls on a wide board across light trestles, and stood, peajacketed and hands in pockets, waiting for customers.”

“At least one unidentified Chillicothean connected seven peajacketed men “in a big, black car” with the million-dollar holdup of Brink’s in Boston, when he saw them stop at Albers super market on East Main street Wednesday evening.”

“The thin strains of a Romany romance / Undaunt the ears of each peajacketed / Seaman on liberty, and of each old / Wanderer slowly losing to the cold, / And of each schoolboy who has come to see / Life in the flesh inside the Lovemovie.”

“Pride refuses to die in the shabby peajacketed man explaining his panhandling technique.”

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