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Webster 1913 Edition
Waistcoat
Waist′coat
,Noun.
(a)
A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
(b)
A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
☞ The waistcoat was a part of female attire as well as male . . . It was only when the waistcoat was worn without a gown or upper dress that it was considered the mark of a mad or profligate woman.
Nares.
Syn. – See
Vest
. Webster 1828 Edition
Waistcoat
WAISTCOAT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
waistcoat
waistcoat
English
Noun
waistcoat (plural waistcoats)
- An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
- (chiefly Britain) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.[1][2]
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
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A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers
Synonyms
Translations
a sleeveless, collarless garment
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