Formal or semi-formal, open-front, waist-length dress jacket of military origin.
1Over that matter of the mess jacket, I mean.
2Of course, you have not got your full kit yet; but you will want a mess jacket and waistcoat.
3He lit two candles, blew out the lamp, and throwing aside his mess jacket, yawned and stretched himself extensively.
4He 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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