mackintosh

• “And hanging up one of the bird-skin rugs in its place, the "mackintosh" was drawn and carefully knotted around the rim of the shaky receptacle.”

  Adrift in the Ice-Fields

• “A man in a serge suit and a beige mackintosh sits on a folding chair, smoking a cigarette.”

  The Guardian: Endeavour: an inspector recalled

• “I pawned my watch, my bicycle, and a mackintosh of which my father had been very proud and which he had left to me.”

  Chapter 25

• “I got my bicycle, my watch, and my father's mackintosh out of pawn and rented a typewriter.”

  Chapter 25

• “There's Bill stumbling up the road, umbrella-armed, mackintosh wet- spotted, swaying like a sailor off a sea journey.”

  Fictionaut: Where's Me Dinner Woman?

• “Once Dick suggested that she take his oilskins, as her mackintosh was worth no more than paper in such a storm.”

  SIWASH

• “It was not alone Molly Travis who pulled on gum boots, mackintosh, and straps; for the phantom hands of ten thousand forbears drew tight the buckles, just so as they squared her jaw and set her eyes with determination.”

  SIWASH

• “He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.”

  Chapter XVIII

• “I struggled along, stood off the butcher and the grocer, pawned my watch and bicycle and my father's mackintosh, and I worked.”

  Chapter 26

• “And when you flip through the hundreds of photographs Larkin left, you see that the huge majority are of this cockatoo of a woman called Monica, and in a single glance you realise what an extraordinary couple they must have made: he so soberly dressed in mackintosh and bicycle clips, and her so exquisitely and loudly turned out: extraordinary hats and wacky stockings, mannish pinstripe trousers and daringly (for the time) short skirts.”

  The Guardian: In search of the real Philip Larkin

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