mackinaw blanket

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   a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States

   Synonymsmackinaw

   Broaderblanket

Questions about mackinaw blanket

What does mackinaw blanket mean?

mackinaw blanket means "a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States".

What is another word for mackinaw blanket?

Close synonyms include mackinaw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mackinaw blanket a common word?

mackinaw blanket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.