pilot jacket

English

Etymology

So called because it was worn by seamen.

Noun

pilot jacket (plural pilot jackets)

A pea coat.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.

Derived terms

pilot-jacketed

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