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shell jacket
noun
- a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
shell jacket
noun
- an army officer's waist-length mess jacket
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shell jacket1
First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences
He wore a black shell jacket and a white shirt front which remained innocent of gravy spots.
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His shell-jacket was as much too little for him as he was too big for the premises.
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I made out the shell jacket, the waist and elongated limbs of a life-guardsman, the open bosom of an able seaman.
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Lieutenant Doyle was the next witness summoned, and a more God-forsaken-looking fellow never sat in a shell jacket.
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This specimen was dressed in simple and airy fashion in a single red shell jacket.
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