pea-coated

English

Alternative forms

• peacoated

Etymology

From pea coat +‎ -ed.

Adjective

pea-coated (not comparable)

1. Wearing a pea coat.
   • 1843 August, Hawthorne, “A Reading Party in the Long Vacation”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXIV, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh; and […] London, page 153:

     We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.

   • 1848, “Mr. Smith and Moses”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XIV, London: […] the Punch Office, page 127:

     The pea-coated gent at that word made a start, / And looked nervously round at the goods of our mart: “A vest, coat, and trousers, as soon as they’re done, I want, s’il vous plait, Messieurs Moses and Son.

   • 2022, Jim Mangi, “V Day”, in Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler: What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early, Frontline Books, →ISBN, part I (Ending the War), page 93:

     The iconic image of that day is the Alfred Eisenstadt photo of a pea-coated sailor in drizzly Times Square excitedly kissing a young woman in a stylish overcoat and hat.