Winter jackets

Usage examples of parkas.

We were dressed in bright red windproof, waterproof climbing pants and down-filled hooded parkas, the same bright red for maximum visibility.

Ice Fire huddled in his double-layered caribou-hide parkas, arms crossed where he squatted in the protection of the rock pile.

Wind Woman flapping his worn caribou-skin parkas, the creases of his garments lined white where snow had caked and frozen.

Blade said, scanning the row of soldiers as he passed them, registering their clean, neat white uniforms and white parkas, their hard-bitten visages, and their recent-vintage assault rifles.

Both drivers wore white uniforms and white parkas, but behind each driver sat slumped a figure in a green parka.

The drivers were bundled in their parkas to ward off the brisk, chill wind.

Blade, Athena, and Grizzly, all wearing ill-fitting white parkas, followed.

They were dressed in identical white arctic gear -- parkas, boots, gloves, helmets -- and cinched tightly across their chests were webbed nylon belts that secured automatic weapons to their backs.

They shed their parkas at the door and embraced in a long kiss in the center of the living room.

Caffey and Kate wore their parkas and stood behind the radio operator as he tried to establish contact with Fairbanks, which was to patch him directly through to the army chief of staff in Washington.

So, calmly, she washed syrup off their hands and mouths, helped them back into their parkas and pulled on her own.

Moments after that, children in a rainbow of parkas poured from the doors, running off in whatever direction would take them home.

Wispy clouds raced across a darkening sky to the north, and the wind picked up, parting the fur on hoods and parkas, but none of the people gathering in a circle seemed to notice.

The woman and man were dressed for the cold in fur parkas with hoods pulled tight around their faces, and fur leggings which were tucked into footwear that was wrapped around the lower edge of the trousers and tied.

Barzec signaled Druwez and Danug, and all three put on parkas, picked up large, tightly woven baskets and went outside.