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waistcoat [ˈweɪsˌkəʊt] n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a man's sleeveless waistlength garment worn under a suit jacket, usually buttoning up the front US and Canadian name vest 2. (Clothing & Fashion) a man's garment worn under a doublet in the 16th century waistcoated adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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She remarked that, reckoning from the year when I started as page-boy in the time of the old lord, I had been more than fifty years in her service, and she put into my hands a beautiful waistcoat of wool that she had worked herself, to keep me warm in the bitter winter weather. The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his small-clothes were buttoned with silver threepences. He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace The least likeness to what he had been: While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white- A wonderful thing to be seen! |
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