Barbour
/ˈbɑːbə
/(also Barbour jacket)
noun trademark
A type of green waxed outdoor jacket.The description of a man in a green Barbour style jacket with dark collar length hair has cropped up a number of times in the investigation into the murder....
- Rating: 5/10 Items can be costly, but a Barbour jacket is designed to last a lifetime - send it back and they'll even re-wax it.
- Hence the same sheepskin jackets, wool coats and Barbours turn up year after year.
Origin
Named after John Barbour (died 1918), a draper in NE England who sold waterproof clothing.
Rhymes
- justicing
- justicoat
- justicor
- justifiability
- justifiable
- justifiable homicide
- justifiableness
- justifiably
- justificable
- justification
- justificative
- justificator
- justificatory
- justified
- justifier
- justify
- justifying faith
- justifyingly
- justifying stick
- (just) in case
- Justinian
- Justinianean
- Justinianian
- Justinianic
- Justinianist