Sentence examples for oilskin from inspiring English sources
noun
Cloth made from cotton and treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof.
It's done its time as a Mom and Pop trattoria, with oversized pepper mills and oilskin tablecloths.
The dining table, covered by a bright yellow oilskin with blue, green and orange flower-shaped splodges, was where Tove likely wrote her last melancholic Moomin stories, Moominpappa at Sea and Moominvalley in November.
He had on maroon corduroys, an oilskin jacket, and an indigo wool cap.
Some sailors carried carbines and most of the engineers had rifles packed in oilskin cases.
He bought a small house in a suburb and bicycled the ten miles to the university each day, donning a slightly ludicrous yellow oilskin and hat when it rained.
Sitting in the shade on Majestic Beach with ruffled hair, an oilskin jacket, and leather pants and boots, he could almost be French.
Samples of the crew's oilskin-covered trousers and coats will be on display – all designed and made by the top fashion houses of the day.
If your taste goes beyond books, check out the oilskin-bound Moleskine notepads and sketchbooks (Hemingway used them, and Russians love Hemingway), and a rainbow array of American Apparel scarves and polo shirts.
What is clear, though, is that these are exceptionally flush times for the Maine lobsterman, that crusty old rubber-booted, oilskin-suited icon of the state.
It began with his "discovery", in 1965, of a batch of memoirs wrapped in oilskins and packed in a tea-chest in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire.
Confronted by angry workers in overalls or oilskins, he may think that he can save a factory or abolish fish quotas.
