Formal or semi-formal, open-front, waist-length dress jacket of military origin.
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.
6 "You're all wrong about that mess jacket , Jeeves."
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