Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
juste-au-corps .
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- noun historical A
knee-length coat worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Etymologies
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These gilets could be worn without the white justacorps as a fatigue uniform, and for training.
Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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If that wasn't enough, foreign regiments wore different coloured justacorps, red for Swiss and Irish, cornflower blue for German, dark blue for Scots, and brown for Italian.
Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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These gilets could be worn without the white justacorps as a fatigue uniform, and for training.
French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008
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If that wasn't enough, foreign regiments wore different coloured justacorps, red for Swiss and Irish, cornflower blue for German, dark blue for Scots, and brown for Italian.
French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008
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-- Geoffery, see her rigged out immediately for a new voyage: Look in figure 9, in the upper drawer, and give her out the flowered justacorps, with the petticoat belonging to it.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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