English

Noun

matinée jacket ‎(plural matinée jackets)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.
   • 2007, Cathy Kelly, Best of Friends, ISBN 1416592083, page 440:

     “I just can't see you with wool and needles,” she said in amusement one day on the phone when Kerry told her she was halfway through a tiny white matinée jacket.

   • 2010, Madeleine Wickham, Cocktails For Three, ISBN 1446423875:

     She gestured to her knitting. "I'm just running her up a little matinée jacket." .

   • 2012, Judith Saxton, Nobody's Children, ISBN 11446441865:

     It was meant to be a matinée jacket but it bore a far stronger resemblance to a string vest, so many and various were the holes where the inexpert knitter had dropped stitches.