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First opened Monday, October 27, 2008

レインコート

レインコート

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raincoat

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)外来語 · LoanwordBorrowing

レインコート is borrowed from English “raincoat”.

Taken apart

  1. レインコート

    レインコート

    English raincoat

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “Borrowed from English raincoat.”

Source: Wiktionary: レインコート (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

外来語 Loanword
Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

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