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smoking jacket
noun
- a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
smoking jacket
noun
- a man's comfortable jacket of velvet, etc, closed by a tie belt or fastenings, worn at home
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Word History and Origins
Origin of smoking jacket1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Word History and Origins
Origin of smoking jacket1
so called because it was formerly worn for smoking
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Example Sentences
Pyetushkov came out of the back room in a parti-coloured smoking-jacket with tucked-up sleeves, and a strainer in his hand.
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He was also much fatter than when I had seen him last, and he wore a smoking jacket of purple velvet.
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Renovales, in a smoking jacket, read the papers, soothed by the charming atmosphere of his quiet home.
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Ronder was wearing brown kid slippers and a dark velvet smoking-jacket.
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He had on a ragged smoking-jacket, a pair of shapeless old Romeo slippers, his ordinary business waistcoat and trousers.
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