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mackintosh

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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mack·in·tosh /ˈmækɪntɒʃ $ -tɑːʃ/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned  DCCa coat which you wear to keep out the rain (麦金托什)雨衣 SYN mac, raincoat
Examples from the Corpus
mackintoshHe did, however, offer to make me a mackintosh.Francie had taken his fiddle and gone off about his own business in his Easter Rising trilby and mackintosh.Blue dusk began to blur shapes together, but the beige mackintosh was visible.The beige mackintosh was embraced by a blue one.Tom handed him his mackintosh and nodded.It blinded Willie and trickled down inside the collar of his mackintosh.I put on my plain black dress and put my mackintosh on over it.Weatheralls had a shop there - mackintosh people - with a deep doorway.
Origin mackintosh (1800-1900) Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), Scottish scientist who invented a way of preventing liquid from getting through cloth
mack·in·tosh nounChineseSyllable
wear keep to Corpus which a you coat


Mackintosh
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie /tʃɑːlz ˈreni $ tʃɑːrlz-/
(1868–1928) a Scottish architect, artist, and designer of furniture and glass. His work is considered to be among the best examples of the Art Nouveau style, and he designed many buildings in and around Glasgow in Scotland.


mackintosh
mackintosh /ˈmækɪntɒʃ $ -tɑːʃ/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned
 Date: 1800-1900
 Origin: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), Scottish scientist who invented a way of preventing liquid from getting through cloth
a coat which you wear to keep out the rain
   SYN  mac, raincoat


mack·in·toshBrE /ˈmækɪntɒʃ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmækɪntɑːʃ/ 🔊 noun (old-fashioned) = mac