peajacketed

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peajacketed (not comparable)

Alternative form of pea-jacketed
- 1864 November, Clew Garnet, “Leaves from a Blockader’s Log. Mysteries of the Middle Watch.”, in The Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume XX, number 5 (whole 119), Boston, Mass.: Office American Union, Flag of Our Union, and Novelette […], page 361:
  “I would see the commander of this vessel,” the lady said, after having paused at the gangway a few moments, and cast a most inquisitorial glance around her and upon the half dozen or so peajacketed gentlemen of the quarter-deck present.
- 1912 October 27, S. Ten Eyck Bourke, Charles Francis Bourke, “The Law of the Beach”, in Sunday Magazine, page 5:
  “I don’t see what good she’d do us: we’re Government employees,” Ford said, his face paling with sudden premonition as he stared at the peajacketed little man in sou’wester and sea boots—Welsh’s idea of proper “sky pilot” costume.
- 1929, Cornelius Weygandt, “Pennsylvania Dutch”, in The Red Hills: A Record of Good Days Outdoors and In, With Things Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, published 1930, page 18:
  One immaculate looking limousine, seven-passenger, produced a handsome young man of twenty-five who carefully laid out the carcases of a dozen and a half roasting fowls on a wide board across light trestles, and stood, peajacketed and hands in pockets, waiting for customers.
- 1950 January 21, “Schoolboys Halted Here as Brink’s Bandits”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 150, number 18, Chillicothe, Ohio, page one:
  At least one unidentified Chillicothean connected seven peajacketed men “in a big, black car” with the million-dollar holdup of Brink’s in Boston, when he saw them stop at Albers super market on East Main street Wednesday evening.
- 1967, L. E. Sissman, “The West Forties: Morning, Noon, and Night”, in Dying: An Introduction, Atlantic Monthly Press, →LCCN, page 116:
  The thin strains of a Romany romance / Undaunt the ears of each peajacketed / Seaman on liberty, and of each old / Wanderer slowly losing to the cold, / And of each schoolboy who has come to see / Life in the flesh inside the Lovemovie.
- 1973, Howard M. Bahr, “The social organization of skid row”, in Skid Row: An Introduction to Disaffiliation, New York, N.Y., London, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →LCCN, page 153:
  Pride refuses to die in the shabby peajacketed man explaining his panhandling technique.