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sealapack
[< Esk. silapak]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:seelapak, sil(l)apak
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a white outer garment, often worn as camouflage by Eskimo hunters.
See: snowshirt
Quotations
1942
The cold pierced through his thin sillapak so that all night he jumped about to prevent the fatal drowsiness which precedes death from creeping upon him.
1952
Sometimes the hunter dons a white "seelapak" to make himself even less conspicuous. . . .
1959
. . . a tightly-woven poplin of cotton and nylon takes the place of the wind-blocking fabric Eskimos first used for the outer garment known as a sealapack.