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the only coat that laughs at weather designed to kill you
means A heavy hooded jacket, usually insulated and lined with fur or fleece, built to keep you warm in brutal cold.
from The word comes from Nenets, a language of the Arctic Samoyedic peoples of northern Russia, where it named a skin coat. It traveled into Russian and then into English by way of the Aleut people of Alaska, who used the word for a similar fur garment. Fittingly, the word itself made the same journey as the coat: born in the far north, worn against the killing cold.
- origin
- Inuit Caribou and seal-skin gear for Arctic survival
- name root
- From Nenets word meaning animal skin
- fur trim
- Hood ruff breaks wind, prevents facial frostbite
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- 1960s British scooter culture's uniform of choice
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- Snorkel parka tested by U.S. Air Force crews
mod movement parka — british youth subculture wore fishtail parkas in london's 1960s mod scene, especially at brightown beach clashes
canada goose expedition parka — canadian arctic research teams and polar expeditions have used canada goose parkas since the 1950s