sillapakn.
/ˈsiːləpak/ A white outer garment worn as camouflage by Inuit hunters of Labrador.
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1916 E. W. Hawkes Labrador Eskimo 39 Over the fur or duffle dicky a cotton slip (ci′l·apaq) is drawn.]
1942 Beaver Dec. 37/2 The cold pierced through his thin sillapak so that all night he jumped about to prevent the fatal drowsiness which precedes death from creeping upon him.
1952 Beaver Dec. 10/2 Sometimes the hunter dons a white ‘seelapak’ to make himself even less conspicuous.
1959 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 22 Aug. 9 A tightly-woven poplin of cotton and nylon takes the place of the wind-blocking fabric Eskimos first used for the outer garment known as sealapack.
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