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Jacket worn on a blustery day
Answer for the clue "Jacket worn on a blustery day ", 11 letters:
windbreaker
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Windbreaker may refer to: Windbreaker , a thin jacket Windbreaker, (or Windbreak or Breeze Blocker) a sheet of material (usually Hessian) supported by poles (usually wooden) to protect from the wind - see Windbreak Windbreaker (Transformers) , a Transformers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of jacket to keep off the wind (originally a kind of leather shirt), 1918, from wind (n.1) + agent noun from break (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka , windcheater , anorak ]
Usage examples of windbreaker.
In a matter of yards, he was surrounded by FBI agents in blue windbreakers.
He was wearing his usual working gear of jeans, turtleneck and windbreaker, having no need on board ship for dressier outfits.
A man in an FBI windbreaker was kneeling in the dark at the edge of the kill zone and Fagin thought at first that it was Banish, but upon closer examination saw that it was someone else, an agent in headphones mounting a microphone gun with a parabolic dish.
I know that Fracto and the windbreaker can save Xanth, but not whether they will.
Under her windbreaker, he saw, she was wearing a gaudy blue angora sweater, still sparkling frothily with snow.
In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.
So on the evening before the 26th of January, there was my table covered with brand-new warm Olympic underwear, ski pants, a couple of pullovers, a windbreaker and, last but not least, a pair of skis with bindings, and next to them the boots.
He had on a University of Tennessee ballcap and a UT Volunteers windbreaker.
The death mask still covered his face, but he looked almost ordinary in his white hightops, tan khakis, and Windbreaker.
I felt pellets hit and heard them thwap through the plastic of my windbreaker, but the Kevlar softened the blow of the four or five that hit me.
The man with the leather windbreaker came out of the men's room, glanced curiously at Pittman and Burt, then went up the stairs.
It would take more than cracks in the sidewalk to disrupt the primo ballerino grace with which he walked, as it would take more than the chill of a New York January evening to require him to add the threadbare windbreaker thrown over one shoulder to the black Cinderella T-shirt.
Marathe always disguised the boggling size of his arms under a long-sleeved windbreaker.
A man and a woman stood in the middle of the room, wearing blue slacks and shirts, FBI nylon windbreakers with creds attached.
He was wearing a leather windbreaker and a heavy roll-collar blue sweater under it, a pair of beatup Bedford cord breeches, and the kind of high laced boots that field engineers and surveyors wear in rough country.