Piece worn in a blizzard

Usage examples of parka.

Leaving the girl crying softly over her man, Malemute Kid slipped into his parka and snowshoes, tucked his rifle under his arm, and crept away into the forest.

He slipped the light, soft underfur over his head, and then he put on his shagshay furs, his trousers and parka.

He untied the laces that held the parka closed then pulled her arms free and tossed the soggy fur garment on the floor.

He pulled on a dirty blue parka, the sort every Alaskan wore for outdoor chores, and set a rabbit-fur hat on his head.

The parkas were richly decorated with beadwork of bone, ivory, shell, animal teeth, and black-tipped white ermine tells.

Lieutenant Bonn emerged from his quarters and strode down the hall, jerking on his parka.

Before turning back toward the border, Dixon noticed that Cerro had a white helmet cover, a commodity in even shorter supply than the white parka.

The fourth, incomplete album began with a sparkle of her chastest images: Armande in a pink parka, Armande jewel-bright, Armande careening on skis through the sugar dust.

There was also, incongruously enough, a very ordinary old-fashioned wooden coatrack, with a bright orange insulated coverall hanging from it, and a bright red parka hanging next to it.

He hung the coveralls and parka carefully, and set the boots out by the coatrack, making sure all was neat and orderly, placing each item where it belonged.

She fantasized about an FBI assignment in Tampa as she zipped her parka, clamped on earmuffs, and wound her scarf around her head and neck.

They took off their outer parkas and sat down on the felted wool pads that covered the ground.

The cameraman pulled a microcassette recorder from the breast pocket of his parka and clicked it off.

A second later she came back and tore off her parka and tucked it out of sight, too.

Needing to do something useful, he pulled on his jeans, pushed his feet into boots and his arms into a parka, went out back to the sugarhouse, and flipped on the lights.