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parka
noun parkas
    1. A hooded jacket made of skins, worn by the Inuit and Aleut people of the Arctic.
    2. A windproof jacket, especially a quilted one with a fur-trimmed hood; an anorak.
Etymology: 18c: Aleut, meaning ‘skin or coat', from Russian, meaning ‘pelt' or ‘skin jacket'.



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