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Old 21st Jan 2001, 10:26
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Anorak, an Inuit word, A heavy jacket with a hood; a parka.
[Greenlandic Eskimo annoraaq, formerly spelt ánorâk.]

I first came across the word reading accounts of Gino Watkins expeditions in Greenland in the thirties when he explored the interior for the envisaged great circle routes over the North Atlantic.