blazer
something that blazes or shines brightly.
a sports jacket, usually a solid color or striped, having metal buttons and sometimes an insignia on the breast pocket, as one worn by a member of a club, school, or the like.
a small cooking apparatus using as its source of heat a spirit lamp, hot coals, etc., used especially for preparing food at the table or outdoors.
Origin of blazer
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How to use blazer in a sentence
He dresses tackily, in double breasted blazers, two-tone dress shirts, and gold ties.
So how do blazers, trousers, and pointed-toe flats an “impeccable dress sense” make?
Anne Hidalgo, Paris’s First Female Mayor, Isn’t a Fashionista…and That’s Quite All Right | Erin Cunningham | April 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAwkward teenage boys in the Beltway uniform of triple-pleated khakis, oversize blue blazers, and unusually wide ties.
The designer focused on classic sportswear cuts with fitted blazers, belted coats, and pencil skirts.
Fashion Week Dispatch: Prabal Gurung, Altuzarra, Alexander Wang | Erin Cunningham | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe collection includes leather pants, fringed boots, silk t-shirts, and wool blazers.
Isabel Marant Lands at H&M; Burberry Breaks $1 Billion | The Fashion Beast Team | November 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Seventy years ago he became one of the trail-blazers of the Farther West.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerThe people of the new lands—the pioneers, if you choose, the modern colonists, the trail blazers.
Desert Conquest | A. M. ChisholmLittle Lizza Rock, the nondescript, as people called her, used to live at the Blazers.
An Outcast | F. Colburn AdamsAnd there was always some trouble between the Blazers and the people at the house of the 'Nine Nations.'
An Outcast | F. Colburn AdamsLet me get away—out of sight and hearing of these infernal Blazers.
British Dictionary definitions for blazer
/ (ˈbleɪzə) /
a fairly lightweight jacket, often striped or in the colours of a sports club, school, etc
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