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Norfolk jacket

Norfolk jacket noun: a loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.

norfolk jacket: a loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front
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Noun

Norfolk jacket (plural Norfolk jackets)

  1. A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
    • Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, page 309
    • Nearly all our clothing was made of a well-shrunk and very strong grey flannel, and excellent I found it for travelling in these places, because though a Norfolk jacket, shirt, and pair of trousers of it only weighed about four pounds, a great consideration in a tropical country, where every extra...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Examples of Norfolk jacket in a sentence

  • […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174:
  • He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

Forms of Norfolk jacket

pluralNorfolk jackets

Words formed from Norfolk jacket

  • Norfolk-jacketed

Questions about Norfolk jacket

What does Norfolk jacket mean?
Norfolk jacket means a loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
How do you use Norfolk jacket in a sentence?
[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
What part of speech is Norfolk jacket?
Norfolk jacket is a noun.
What is the plural of Norfolk jacket?
The plural of Norfolk jacket is Norfolk jackets.

Words near Norfolk jacket in the dictionary

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  4. Norfolk Islander
  5. Norfolk Islanders
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  10. Norfolk plover
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