parkee

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn in the late 1950's and early 1960's, most parks had a "parkee" staffing a building to lend you equipment and make sure the place was under control.

Steven Cohen: Everyone's Backyard: Parks in New York City 2010

Also, I was told by another "parkee" at the library that if you do not pay your meter immediately - in other words, if you take time to get your child out of the car first - you are in violation of paying the meter.

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a thick sweater and over all the usual Alaskan "parkee" amply furred around the hood; underneath was a suit of the heaviest Jaeger underwear -- yet until nigh noon feet were like lumps of iron and fingers were constantly numb.

The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891

The girl had thrown back her parkee, and was sobbing over the man on the blankets, and calling him father.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

And it grew warmer, until Jolly Roger flung back the hood of his parkee and turned up the fur of his cap.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

Roger put on his heavy coat and parkee and pocketed his pipe.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

So letters pass through the post-offices addressed: "Mr. Pretty Henry," "Mr.. Monkey Bill," "Miss Sally Shortandirty"; so, occasionally, the grotesque spectacle may present itself, to the passengers on a steamer, of a native woman in a "Merry Widow" hat and a blood-stained parkee gutting salmon on the river bank.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

The parkee without opening front or back, that pulls on over the head, is primarily a windbreak, and when a scarf is wrapped around mouth and nose, and the fur-edged hood of the parkee is pulled forward over cap and scarf, the traveller who must face the wind has done all he can to protect himself from it.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

Moose hide or caribou hide garments, tanned and smoked, are impervious to the wind, and a parkee of muskrat or squirrel, or, as was not uncommon in the old days, of marten, or one of caribou tanned with the hair on, with boots of this last material, give all the warmth that exposure to the coldest weather requires.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

The parkee hood had to be drawn closely all the time, and the eyes were sore from trying to peer ahead through the fur edging of the hood.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891