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wastcote

wastcote is the obsolete form of waistcoat.

Meaning of waistcoat

Noun

waistcoat (plural waistcoats)

  1. An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
  2. (UK) 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
    Synonyms:
    vest

Forms of wastcote

pluralwastcotes

Questions about wastcote

What is wastcote the obsolete form of?
Wastcote is the obsolete form of waistcoat.

Words near wastcote in the dictionary

  1. wasta
  2. wastable
  3. wastage
  4. wastages
  5. wastas
  6. wastcote
  7. wastcotes
  8. waste
  9. waste away
  10. waste bin
  11. waste bins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastcote (page history and authors); waistcoat (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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