waistcoat
Syllables: waist·coat/ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/
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dated/ˈwɛskət/
waistcoat noun: an ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
Noun
waistcoat (plural waistcoats)
- An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
- A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette
- Synonyms:
- vest
waistcoat meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
waistcoat in Hindi
- a sleeveless, collarless garment
- वास्कट vāskaṭ
waistcoat in Urdu
- waistcoat
- واسکٹ vāskiṭ
waistcoat in Bengali
- ফতুয়াবিশেষ
waistcoat in Telugu
- waistcoat
- మొలధోవతి moladhōvati
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- waistcoat in Malayalam
- കയ്യില്ലാക്കുപ്പായം
- waistcoat in Punjabi
- ਵਾਸਕਟ vāskaṭ
- waistcoat in Arabic
- صُدْرِيّة ṣudriyya, صِدَار ṣidār
- waistcoat in Malay
- rompi, weskot
- waistcoat in Indonesian
- rompi
- waistcoat in Persian
- ژیله žile, جلیقه jeliqe
- waistcoat in Vietnamese
- áo gi-lê, gi-lê
Examples of waistcoat in a sentence
- Despite the heat, he wears a woolly hat and a waistcoat over his salwar kameez.
- Fustians were used for anything from draperies to dresses or upholstery to men’s waistcoats.
- He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.
Synonyms of waistcoat
Forms of waistcoat
| plural | waistcoats |
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Origin of waistcoat
From waist + coat. Compare Yola wauscoat, wazcoote.
Words formed from waistcoat
Questions about waistcoat
- What does waistcoat mean?
- Waistcoat means an ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
- What is waistcoat in Hindi?
- Waistcoat in Hindi is वास्कट (vāskaṭ). See Waistcoat meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is waistcoat?
- Waistcoat is a noun.
- How do you pronounce waistcoat?
- Waistcoat is pronounced /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/.
- What is the plural of waistcoat?
- The plural of waistcoat is waistcoats.
Words near waistcoat in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: waistcoat (page history and authors); واسکٹ (Urdu) (page history and authors); waistcoat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మొలధోవతి (Telugu) (page history and authors); waistcoat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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