What is "oilskins"

Usage examples of "oilskins".

Like Gregor, she wore a heavy sweater, oilskins, rubber boots, and gauntlets.

The gray-suited saurs looked more spruce than the humans, most of whom were in sea-boots and oilskins, dripping wet.

Gregor finished hosing the scales and slime off his oilskins and hung them in the locker.

I had thought, at first, that I saw M in his oilskins, but this was a man with no beard I could see who also wore a mask he had fashioned from a large, figured red bandana.

M, despite the heat and the sweating oils that shimmered upon his face, wore his oilskins and his woolen cap.

And, standing before us, one foot near the gunwale, the tiller in one hand while the other seized the gaff hook on its long pole, planted, for balance, against the ribbed flooring of the boat, his oilskins open and glinting in what light we passed or was thrown by the lantern, M, in his closed and bearded face, stared forward, over us and over Sam, toward the distant, retreating chimney that spouted gouts of fire and threw up sparks and made the sound of a railroad locomotive roaring away with a considerable portion of our dignity and hope.

Farley, still in his brown-colored oilskins, fared much better, so she made sure he helped the draymen carry the heaviest pieces, including the upright piano that she hoped would leave him with a hernia the size of a turnip.

The last she saw of him was a flap of his brown oilskins as he veered left and stomped away.

Willie and the others were still draped in their oilskins, and they hid their weapons from sight as they rode up to the gate.

He had brought the oilskins with him, and the others were persuaded to don them and keep their weapons hidden.

Both Willie and Justin slipped a hand under their oilskins as they attended to their food and drink.

Draped in their oilskins with their weapons hidden, they rode slowly down the streets.