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wastecoat

wastecoat 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 wastecoat

pluralwastecoats

Questions about wastecoat

What is wastecoat the obsolete form of?
Wastecoat is the obsolete form of waistcoat.

Words near wastecoat in the dictionary

  1. wasteboards
  2. wastebook
  3. wastebooks
  4. wastecan
  5. wastecans
  6. wastecoat
  7. wastecoats
  8. wasted
  9. wasted away
  10. wasted breath
  11. wasted time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastecoat (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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