Crossword clues for cagoule
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A lightweight waterproof parka.
WordNet
n. lightweight parka; waterproof
Wikipedia
A cagoule, cagoul, kagoule or kagool (from the French cagoule meaning balaklava) is the British English term for a lightweight (usually without lining), weatherproof raincoat or anorak with a hood, which often comes in knee-length. The American English equivalent is windbreaker; the Canadian English equivalent is windbreaker or K-Way; the Australian English equivalent is parka.
In some versions, when rolled up, the hood or front pocket doubles as a bag into which the rest of the coat may be stowed.
Usage examples of "cagoule".
She pulled up the hood of her cagoule, tying it toggle-tight against the wind which was sending an empty Diet Coke can clattering through the spaces reserved for boats and trailers.
She should stop, knock, and ask, but instead she was groping for her spare key in her cagoule pocket.
She found her cagoule and slipped to the Spar, buying pate and crispbreads.
She dug the carrier bag out of the fridge, slipped in two plates, two sets of cutlery, two glasses and a corkscrew, remembering at the last moment to tuck the window measurements into her cagoule pocket, and remembering also to make sure that the outside and hall lights were left on to welcome her home.
He was a twenty-eight-year-old grade three manager working for the Governor’s Transport Office, dressed in fawn shorts and a jade shirt, his lemon-yellow cagoule hanging off the back of his chair.
He opened his lightweight cagoule and shook some of the rain from it as she escorted him up the stairs and into the security zone of the second floor.
The administration official was talking heatedly to another man wearing a cagoule with the LDC emblem on the arm.
She dug into her cylindrical kitbag for a cagoule, her burnt armour-suit jacket had been left behind in the jungle—in that state it wouldn’t have been any use anyway.
He was wearing a cagoule which was identical to the one in her hands, right down to the unobtrusive Collins logo on the left shoulder.
The rain was worming its way round her cagoule hood to run down her neck.
She stood in musty darkness shaking her arms and easing her cagoule hood back.
A couple of minutes later, he'd shed the cagoule and folded it, tucking it beneath his arm.
He was shivering, but the rain had been pouring off his cagoule and on to his sweat-shirt, soaking it.
Then Grant caught his cagoule on the barbed wire as he hurdled the fence, ripping its seam.
Then Grant caught his cagoule on the barbed wire as he hurdied the fence, ripping its seam.