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Macintosh   /mˈækəntˌɔʃ/   Listen
Macintosh

noun
1.
A lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric.  Synonym: mackintosh.
2.
A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.  Synonyms: mac, mack, mackintosh.





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"Macintosh" Quotes from Famous Books



... cornered Macintosh, one of the members whom he knew to have been a college man, because of ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... fashion in silk hats by distributing a great number of them among the rabble, at mock-prices. (Hermann, 1st ed., 91.) The author witnessed a similar but unsuccessful attempt in Berlin in 1838-39, by the tailors against the so-called Macintosh coat. On the conspiracy of the English dealers in second-hand goods against auctions, see Athaeneum, Dec. 5, 1863. It is one of McCulloch's characteristic exaggerations, that he says that conspiracies to raise the price of a commodity by artificial means, are broken just as soon as ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher


Words linked to "Macintosh" :   mac, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, material, Britain, mack, UK, waterproof, textile, raincoat, oilskin, United Kingdom, cloth, Great Britain, U.K., mackintosh, slicker, fabric


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