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Date: 1700-1800
Language: Aleut
Origin: 'skin, outer clothing', from Russian, 'animal skin and fur', from Yurak

parka

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes
par‧ka [countable]
DCC a thick warm jacket with a hood
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