Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Word of the day: windcheater

The word of the day is windcheater:

Chiefly British .
  1. lightweight jacket for sports or otheroutdoor wear.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/windcheater)


"But in Salzburg two days earlier I saw seventy or eighty of them lined up on a street corner, very predominantly very young men, in international teen-age gear: baseball caps, luminous windcheaters, dark glasses."

 - Martin Amis, "Oktober", 7 December 2015 The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/oktober)

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