waistcoat

IPA: wˈeɪstkoʊt

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

The waistcoat is important, see, because the colors denote certain ranks.
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.