Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A textile fabric made especially for men's waistcoats, and different from cloth intended to be used for coats and trousers. These stuffs usually contain silk, and are of a fancy pattern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fabric designed forwaistcoats , often with amulticoloured pattern of differentyarns .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Such strait-waistcoating as you treat me to is not becoming in you at so early a date.”
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"Such strait-waistcoating as you treat me to is not becoming in you at so early a date."
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Renelagh full moon, the Prussian stormont, Harlequin's motto, and an olive check inclosing four lions rampant and three flours de Luce; and for gentlemen's waistcoating, the
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The fancy waistcoating trade had uniformly had its cycles of alternate briskness and depression; but experience, however stern its teachings, could not teach unwilling learners.
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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Mrs. Carver bespoke from him two pieces of waistcoating, which she promised to dispose of for him most advantageously, by a raffle, for which she had raised subscriptions amongst her numerous acquaintance.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
missanthropist commented on the word waistcoating
Not to be confused with wainscotting.
May 17, 2008