wamus
Definitions
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- noun A warm knitted jacket from the south-west of the USA.
Examples
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I saw him suddenly pull the cape of his wamus over his face, and reasoned that he also had been attacked by these invisible insects.
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A wamus in old times was a very heavy woollen garment.
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"Want to buy any cabbages?" said the bad boy to the grocery man, as he stopped at the door of the grocery, dressed in a blue wamus, his breeches tucked in his boots, and an old hat on his head, with a hole that let out his hair through the top.
The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883
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To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate.
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Dave said, with his slow drawl, 'If you don't like my wamus I can take it off.'
Note
The word 'wamus' comes from Dutch.
