Formal or semi-formal, open-front, waist-length dress jacket of military origin.
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Examples for "shell jacket"
Examples for "shell jacket"
1Close to the lamp was a horseman in a shell jacket and gold-laced forage cap.
2His shell jacket had the three yellow bars of a captain on its standing collar, and Drew saluted.
3He leaned over them, and his fingers grabbed and twisted at the front of Drew's threadbare shell jacket.
4Because I live in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I haven't worn a soft- shell jacket outside in more than 10 years.
5Yet Maynard's attire was mixed and decidedly well-worn: a shell jacket, dull boots, threadbare trousers, and a plain undress cap.
1A boy in Eton jacket and wide collar, careless, pale, and agitated.
2Boys wore swords, and not Eton jackets, in George Baillie's day.
3Their coats were short and tight, resembling Eton jackets.
4Mark and Dank were in their trousers and Eton jackets, and Roddy in his new black velvet suit.
5His jacket was a short roundabout, something like an Eton jacket, and his shirt was soft and frilled.
1He wore a monkey jacket, probably a remnant of his sea-going father's wardrobe.
2The 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.'
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."
Translations for mess jacket