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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