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 "
1 Close to the lamp was a horseman in a shell jacket and gold-laced forage cap.
2 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 .
4 Because I live in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I haven't worn a soft- shell jacket outside in more than 10 years.
5 Yet Maynard's attire was mixed and decidedly well-worn: a shell jacket , dull boots, threadbare trousers, and a plain undress cap.
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.
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 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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