waistcoat
IPA: wˈeɪstkoʊt
noun
- An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
- (chiefly Britain) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.
Examples of "waistcoat" in Sentences
- Men often wear an outer waistcoat.
- The clergy vest is a form of waistcoat.
- I saw at least 50 girls wearing the waistcoat.
- In the US I got the impression a vest was a waistcoat.
- By the 1670s, a vest or waistcoat was worn under the coat.
- The waistcoat or jacket appeared during this time as well.
- Note the V shaped arrangement of buttons on the waistcoat or vest.
- However, the angi used by the men is more a waistcoat than a blouse.
- The jacket became looser and the waistcoat was completely dispensed with.
- The waistcoat is important, see, because the colors denote certain ranks.
- The wicket keeper wears the same clothes with the addition of a waistcoat.
- His eye is large and dark and dewy; he wears a tight little red satin waistcoat on his full
- And this was the first and last time we ever saw Jack London arrayed in waistcoat and starched collar.
- Not every man can wear a vest what the Brits call a waistcoat without looking like a riverboat gambler or John Foster Dulles.
- Marianne’s marriage to the man in the flannel waistcoat is dissatisfying because it undoes the reader’s nostalgia for uncomplicated sentimental resolution.
- In less than two weeks he revealed a tight, glossy little bright red satin waistcoat and with it a certain youthful maturity such as one beholds in the wearer of a first dress suit.
- That's because the company's Travel Vest - North American for 'waistcoat' - is "compatible with iPad", meaning it has an inner pocket large enough to accommodate Apple's 243 x 190 x
- He had a tuft of white hair at the back of his dark head, like the cotton-tail of a rabbit, and as well as corduroy breeches he wore a rabbit-skin waistcoat, and he was a great nuisance to gamekeepers, who called him a poacher; whereas all he did was to let the rabbits out of the snares when it was kind to, and destroy the snares.