DOUBLE-BREASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double-breasted mean? 

• DOUBLE-BREASTED (adjective)
  The adjective DOUBLE-BREASTED has 1 sense:

1. (of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE-BREASTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE-BREASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons

Context example:

double-breasted suit

Antonym:

single-breasted ((of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons)

 Context examples 

Martin watched him and saw the stiff-rim, the square-cut, double-breasted coat and the swaggering shoulders, of the youthful hoodlum who had once been he.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl.

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

He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)