WAISTCOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waistcoat mean? 

• WAISTCOAT (noun)
  The noun WAISTCOAT has 1 sense:

1. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat

  Familiarity information: WAISTCOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAISTCOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

vest; waistcoat

Hypernyms ("waistcoat" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waistcoat"):

bulletproof vest (a vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet)

Holonyms ("waistcoat" is a part of...):

three-piece suit (a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers)

 Context examples 

"This," and Mr. Bhaer took a little worn paper out of his waistcoat pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Pray do not put me in a strait-waistcoat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I did the same with my waistcoat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When I fight near town I usually fire a hundred or so in Manton’s back shop, but I dare say I can find my way to his waistcoat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wished him good night, and walked out of the shop the richer by that sum, and the poorer by a waistcoat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I might at any moment be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pocket.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Shirts, stockings, cravats, and waistcoats faced her in each.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You’re too late. She’s my wife. No, she’s your widow. His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley’s waistcoat.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)