Definitions for parkas

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parkas par·ka

Spelling: [pahr-kuh]

IPA: /ˈpɑr kə/

Parkas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in parkas (aakprs).

Definitions for parkas

noun

1. a fur coat, shirtlike and hooded, for wear in the arctic and other regions of extreme cold.
2. a hip-length jacket or overshirt with an attached hood, often of wool or of a windproof, water-repellent material lined or trimmed with wool, used by skiers, hunters, the military, etc.
3. any coat or jacket with a hood, as a hooded raincoat or windbreaker.

Origin of parkas

1770-80; (Aleut or Yupik) dialectal Russian párka (Komi) Nenets

Examples for parkas

The parka, obviously once expensive, now showed wear at the elbows and rips at the cuffs.

Pete took off his cap and parka and dropped them on a chair.

He had been peering inside the parka hood and suddenly he turned to me.

Entrance begins at a steep $20 per person, which covers the cost of gloves and a parka.

In a moment he had his parka down over his head and was out in the open air.

They are gazing on with some measure of admiration as Havel speaks, wearing a parka, on the way from prison to the palace.

To-morrow I should do as 'parka' did the day he came to Kabaira.

An hour passed and the boy was thankful he had thought to bring his parka.

Alis Garet was there among a little crowd, bundled up in a parka.

He jerked back his parka hood and strained to catch the faint echo.