blazers

Noun

blazer (plural blazers)

1. (informal) A very bright or hot day.
   • The day comes—a blazer, cloudless blue, not a breath stirring the pine-branches; […]1875, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], chapter III, in Hostages to Fortune […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 88
2. (Canada, US) A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.
   • [I]t was evident to him that Mrs. Nichols in branching out did not intend to banish the Welsh rarebit, the oysters in cream, and other delicacies which Tom prided himself on being able to prepare on a blazer so skilfully that the mouths of his friends never ceased to water until the alcohol-lamp...1895, Robert Grant, “By Hook or Crook. Chapter I.”, in The Bachelor’s Christmas and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 260
3. (Northern England) A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
   • From the neighbouring colleries the miners had come in crowds—men, women, and children. The women and children were many of them armed with "blazers" and tin-cans, which they used as cymbals, to the accompaniment of groans, yells, and howls directed against the motley gang of evictors.a. 1923 (date written), Thomas Burt, Aaron Watson, “The Last Strike on the Old Pattern”, in Thomas Burt […]: An Autobiography […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], published 1924, →OCLC, page 177
4. (obsolete) A comet.
5. (figuratively) A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
   • Rowing is, in truth, second to none among our national athletic diversions, and Henley Regatta is the chief rowing tournament of the year. […] [T]he visitors' cup of enjoyment can hardly be fuller. The drive to the river, the gentle pull down stream, or the tow up to the famous reach; the pic-nic...1880 June 19, “[Untitled]”, in The Times, number 29,912, London: Francis Goodlake, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 6
   1. (figuratively) Any suit-style jacket for women.

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