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How to use waistcoat in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Waistcoat means an ornamental garment worn under a doublet. Example: “Despite the heat, he wears a woolly hat and a waistcoat over his salwar kameez.”

More sentences with waistcoat

  • Despite the heat, he wears a woolly hat and a waistcoat over his salwar kameez.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian. From the entry salwar kameez
  • Fustians were used for anything from draperies to dresses or upholstery to men’s waistcoats.2007, Susan M. Ouellette, “Flax from the Field, Cotton from the Sea”, in US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study…. From the entry fustian
  • He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41. From the entry lisle
  • This flowing garment, open in the front, replaced the waistcoat after the Renaissance.1980, Katalin Földi-Dózsa, “How the Hungarian National Costume Evolved”, in Polly Cone, editor, The Imperial Style: Fashions of the…. From the entry dolman
  • A bawneen was a kind of sleeved waistcoat, buttoning up the front.1934, George A. Birmingham, Pleasant places. From the entry bawneen
  • One of his waistcoat pockets was lined with wash-leather for the reception of his gold watch.1913, E.C. Bentley, Trent's Last Case. From the entry wash-leather
  • Watson-ish waistcoats slung with chains heavy enough to pull the Queen Mary to port—it all fits the steampunk aesthetic.2013, K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter, “Foreword”, in Katherine Gleason, Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism, Race Point…. From the entry Dr. Watson-ish
  • He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats.1960, Ian Fleming, “From a View To a Kill”, in For Your Eyes Only, London: Jonathan Cape. From the entry strike a false note
  • She is wearing Tyrolese costume: the low-cut white bodice with cross-laced velvet waistcoat, the floral apron and dirndl skirt.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 1, in Crime out of Mind. From the entry bodice
  • The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons.1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 30. From the entry americano
  • The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 17”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry dinner jacket
  • A man in the window, probably in his sixties, wearing a tarbush and a velvet waistcoat, sat alone before a neglected backgammon table.2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 231. From the entry tarbush
  • Corfe, who was again impeccably afternoonified, in black boots and a pink-and-white striped waistcoat under his navy suit, drew himself taller for a moment.2019, Charles Finch, The Vanishing Man, page 234. From the entry afternoonified
  • For all this, the worn collodion image gracing his memoirs shows a man of estimable appearance in a sober woolen suit and brocade waistcoat.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Profitable Wonders”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 52. From the entry collodion
  • If I went around with a peek-a-boo coat, no waistcoat and a sleeveless shirt, I would have a cold too, and serve me right.”1922 February, Poiret, “The Clothes of Women”, in The O. A. C. Review, volume XXXIV, number 6, London, Ont.: The Ontario Agricultural…. From the entry peek-a-boo
  • Luckily, the king was being portrayed in “Queenist” caricatures as a haughty and lustful fop bursting out of waistcoats and breeches with his current mistress fawning at his feet.2020, May McGoldrick, Highland Sword. From the entry Queenist
  • Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.2000, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23. From the entry Portuguese
  • They had seized the tan derby of one of their number; three others in sharp suits and silk waistcoats were tossing it around in a wild game of salugi.1956, Gerald Green, The Last Angry Man, page 193. From the entry salugi
  • His mother had worked for him as a birthday present a waistcoat of purple tabinet, with little foxes' heads upon it, lined with brown satin and having round mulberry buttons.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 230. From the entry tabinet

Meaning of waistcoat

  1. noun An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
  2. noun A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.

Full definition of waistcoat

Questions about waistcoat in a sentence

How do you use waistcoat in a sentence?
Waistcoat is used as a noun. For example: “Despite the heat, he wears a woolly hat and a waistcoat over his salwar kameez.”
What is a short sentence with waistcoat?
“The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons.”
What does waistcoat mean?
Waistcoat means an ornamental garment worn under a doublet.

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