Waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners.
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Over that matter of the mess jacket, I mean.
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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.
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Close to the lamp was a horseman in a shell jacket and gold-laced forage cap.
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His shell jacket had the three yellow bars of a captain on its standing collar, and Drew saluted.
3
He leaned over them, and his fingers grabbed and twisted at the front of Drew's threadbare shell jacket.
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Because I live in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I haven't worn a soft- shell jacket outside in more than 10 years.
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Yet Maynard's attire was mixed and decidedly well-worn: a shell jacket, dull boots, threadbare trousers, and a plain undress cap.
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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.
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The commander of the perimeter also arrived, with his private's monkey jacket unbuttoned, breathing hard and cursing his old aches and pains.
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'He's got on the hat and monkey jacket he always wears.'
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We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.