Formal or semi-formal, open-front, waist-length dress jacket of military origin.
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Examples for "mess jacket "
Examples for "mess jacket "
1 Over that matter of the mess jacket , I mean.
2 Of course, you have not got your full kit yet; but you will want a mess jacket and waistcoat.
3 He lit two candles, blew out the lamp, and throwing aside his mess jacket , yawned and stretched himself extensively.
4 He almost fell over the drinks cart that was being wheeled along by a low- browed man in a white mess jacket .
5 "Quite all right," the man in the white mess jacket said.
1 He wore a monkey jacket , probably a remnant of his sea-going father's wardrobe.
2 The captain came up the hill, with a man, bringing my monkey jacket and a blanket.
3 'He's got on the hat and monkey jacket he always wears.'
1 A boy in Eton jacket and wide collar, careless, pale, and agitated.
2 Boys wore swords, and not Eton jackets , in George Baillie's day.
3 Their coats were short and tight, resembling Eton jackets .
4 Mark and Dank were in their trousers and Eton jackets , and Roddy in his new black velvet suit.
5 His jacket was a short roundabout, something like an Eton jacket , and his shirt was soft and frilled.
6 The boy wore an Eton jacket and collar and a tall hat-andit looked quite strange in this place.
7 But his claws were fast in Effie's sash and the little point at the back of Harry's Eton jacket .
8 He was very much the same person in his striped convict's blouse as he had been in his Eton jacket .
9 She had taken off her Eton jacket and pulled on a heavy blue football sweater, and over this a reefer.
10 He had dressed himself fully before going off in his usual school suit of black Eton jacket and dark grey trousers.
11 He had dressed himself fully, before going off, in his usual school suit of black Eton jacket and dark gray trousers.
12 The boys are in Eton jackets and black trousers, which, at their mother's wish, are kept just a little too short for them.
13 There were two boys in Eton jackets , answering to the names of Reginald and Horatio, but oftener to the friendly abbreviations Reg and Horry.
14 You might cut it in latitude and turn it into an Eton jacket and a kilt, neither of much use to a Gallo-Roman beggar.
15 I must confess to having appeared on the stage in an Eton jacket and collar at the age of twenty-four, as the schoolboy in Peril.
16 A real parlourmaid suddenly appeared at the far end of the room, and behind her two stewards in gilt-buttoned white Eton jackets and black trousers.
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