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noun

Parkee, Parka n.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

A coat with a fur lining and a hood, used for protection in very cold weather.

Hence: Any of a variety of jackets with attached hoods, usually of very warm or waterproof construction so as to provide protection from cold or rainy weather.

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Etymology of 'Parkee'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Parkee" Quotes from Famous Books

... Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail. Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail. If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze, till sometimes we couldn't see; It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was ...

— Songs of a Sourdough • Robert W. Service

... climbed from the chasm and was locking on his skis when Troy slid up. The ice-dry snow was driving almost horizontally across the face of the ridge and the two engineers had to lean into the force of the wind to keep their balance. Troy fumbled a small service monitor from his parka pocket and shifted it to the new radiation gauge frequency. The signal was steady and strong and its radioactive ...

— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael

... fur mitten lined with thickness of wool from his right hand. Upon trial he found the trigger finger too numb for movement. Carefully, slowly, through long minutes, he worked the bare hand inside his blankets, up under his fur parka, through the chest openings of his shirts, and into the slightly warm hollow of his left arm-pit. Long minutes passed ere the finger could move, when, with equal slowness of caution, he gathered his rifle to his shoulder and drew bead upon the ...

— The Red One • Jack London