Waistcoat

//ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt//

"Waistcoat" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This waistcoat won't meet at the front.

I can't find the waistcoat of my three piece suit.

"I only wished to ask a question," said Holmes, with his finger and thumb in his waistcoat pocket.

"It's best if you don't smoke. Have some chewing gum!" he said amicably, slipping three pieces into his waistcoat pocket.

Ziri always wore a waistcoat.

"You know, I suppose, that they raise pa'sons there like radishes in a bed? And though it do take—how many years, Bob?—five years to turn a lirruping hobble-de-hoy chap into a solemn preaching man with no corrupt passions, they'll do it, if it can be done, and polish un off like the workmen they be, and turn un out wi' a long face, and a long black coat and waistcoat, and a religious collar and hat, same as they used to wear in the Scriptures, so that his own mother wouldn't know un sometimes."

Your waistcoat is inside out. Put it on the right way round.

Peter was wearing what looked like a hand-knitted waistcoat.

Peter was wearing a hand-knitted waistcoat over a grandad shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

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.

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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.

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