blazer

[ bley-zer ]
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noun
  1. something that blazes or shines brightly.

  2. 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.

  1. 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

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at blaze1, -er1

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How to use blazer in a sentence

  • Seventy years ago he became one of the trail-blazers of the Farther West.

  • The people of the new lands—the pioneers, if you choose, the modern colonists, the trail blazers.

    Desert Conquest | A. M. Chisholm
  • Little Lizza Rock, the nondescript, as people called her, used to live at the Blazers.

    An Outcast | F. Colburn Adams
  • And there was always some trouble between the Blazers and the people at the house of the 'Nine Nations.'

    An Outcast | F. Colburn Adams
  • Let me get away—out of sight and hearing of these infernal Blazers.

British Dictionary definitions for blazer

blazer

/ (ˈbleɪzə) /


noun
  1. a fairly lightweight jacket, often striped or in the colours of a sports club, school, etc

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