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Significados de oilskin em inglês

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Waterproof garment made from treated sailcloth or canvas.

Sinônimos
Examples for "slicker"
Examples for "slicker"
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Its new operating system, iOS 6, is slicker than slugs on ice.
Wired
2
It crackled against his slicker; it beat like hands against his face.
The Night Horseman
3
The second night is predictably slicker, and even features the missing joke.
The Guardian
4
It's a little slicker than the state-saving stuff we've seen so far.
Wired
5
Despite never playing together, they looked slicker than the Lions at times.
Radio NZ
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A fleeting vision of the youth in the yellow oilskins mocked him.
The Devil's Paw
2
He took up his oilskins from the floor and slipped into them.
Where the Sun Swings North
3
Captain Candage had gone on deck, rattling away in his stiff oilskins.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
4
A fifth less heavy than the oilskins and tweeds of our forebears?
The Irish Times
5
Tell the steward to bring me my oilskins, out of my cabin.
Held Fast For England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83...
Uso de oilskin em inglês
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Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.
Kim
2
The priest was dressed, and now pulled on a great oilskin coat.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
3
I got into an oilskin then and walked out to the Fultons'.
We Three
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He opened his oilskin coat, glanced at the compass, and nodded approval.
The Wings of the Morning
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He is wearing a lemon-yellow coat made out of an oilskin sleeping-sack.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
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He noticed that she had brought out an oilskin jacket with her.
Vane of the Timberlands
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On Singleton's black oilskin coat the dried salt glistened like hoar frost.
The Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
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Inside was an oilskin cloth wrapped tightly around my 9 mm handgun.
A killing night
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He spent the night in a hollow covered by his oilskin coat.
Depths
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Her hand closed on the oilskin packet that had lain in his palm.
The Secret Adversary
11
A fat sailor in an oilskin hat stood at the entrance.
Harrigan
12
A distant crackling sensation: the oilskin envelope, still in his hand.
The Golem and the Jinni
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His hand went inside his cloak again, to the oilskin pouch.
A clash of kings
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From a pocket next his shirt he drew a small package in oilskin.
Man-Size
15
He drew from his pocket an envelope carefully wrapped in oilskin.
A Man's Woman
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She was clad in an oilskin which had only utility for its purpose.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
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