OILSKIN


Meaning of OILSKIN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

coat

He'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A wave came aboard when I was on watch with the hood of my oilskin unwisely left down.

At the bottom of the companionway she struggled out of the wet oilskins and dropped them on the floor in a heap.

He'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket.

He moved forward reluctantly but instead of entering the forecabin, lay down on the cabin roof still dressed in his oilskins.

Instead, a man at the door ordered him to settle up for the oilskins.

She took her oilskin from the hook on the back door, buttoned herself into it and stepped out, still undetected.

The oilskins grew clammy and soggy on the inside from our condensing sweat.

The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.

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