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Meanings of windbreaker in English

Portuguese
parca
Catalan
anorac
Spanish
anorak
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A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)

parca
Synonyms
Examples for "parka"
Examples for "parka"
1
It will give me a good excuse to buy a fur-lined parka.
Down river
2
She grabbed her parka, but got only as far as the opening.
The Mammoth Hunters
3
She went past his window, wearing a parka with the hood up.
Misery
4
He's never seen me in anything less than a parka and jeans.
The Irish Times
5
Flinging my parka toward the desk, I dashed to the conference room.
206 Bones
1
But the default British national anorak brand these days is Mountain Warehouse.
The Guardian
2
She was last seen wearing jeans and top and a blue anorak.
The Irish Times
3
Inside, one lone figure in an anorak is buying Thursday night doughnuts.
The Guardian
4
When last seen he was wearing black jeans and a navy anorak.
The Irish Times
5
T here are two easy ways to spot a wine anorak.
The Irish Times
1
How the hell had he spotted the slight bulge in the windcheater?
Carte Blanche
2
His windcheater was probably on a hook behind the brochure rack.
Exit wound
3
The figure was wearing a windcheater and a baseball cap with a large peak.
Arctic chill
4
When at last he returned, he was wearing a windcheater with the hood up.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
5
Bill, tightening a drawstring on his windcheater hood, looked over.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
Usage of windbreaker in English
1
Pack: A windbreaker and enough water and food to keep you going.
Independent.ie
2
I held his bicep with two hands wrapped around his red windbreaker.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
3
Perry felt inside a pocket of the leather windbreaker he was wearing.
In Cold Blood
4
Rain pelted Slidell's windbreaker and dripped from the bill of his cap.
Devil Bones
5
Meanwhile I stripped off my slicker and pulled on my nylon windbreaker.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
6
I pull on a windbreaker over my yacht jacket and go outside.
Kafka on the Shore
7
The seats, the windshield, his windbreaker, the cigarettes in his pocket, everything.
Pinball, 1973
8
When he reached bottom, I lowered the bucket, then zipped my windbreaker.
Grave Secrets
9
The younger wore jeans and a windbreaker with a White Sox logo.
Bones of the Lost
10
He withdrew a shiny black gadget from the pocket of his windbreaker.
Halo
11
The Rat slipped a windbreaker over his T-shirt and headed into town.
Pinball, 1973
12
A young man in a worn Army windbreaker hurried after me.
Body work
13
Tully got up and went to where he'd left his windbreaker.
The soul catcher
14
I was pretty sure he had the real disk concealed under his windbreaker.
Empty mile
15
His hands still held the windbreaker, his knuckles resting lightly on my breasts.
Hot six
16
This morning, he'd traded his FBI windbreaker for a faded green Stanford sweatshirt.
Colorado abduction
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Translations for windbreaker
Portuguese
parcaanoraque
Catalan
anorac
Spanish
anorak
Windbreaker through the time
Windbreaker across language varieties
United States of America
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