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jacket

English

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d??æk.?t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?d??æk?t/, /?d??æk?t/
  • Rhymes: -æk?t
  • Hyphenation: jack?et

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

  1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
  3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  4. (slang) A police record.
    • 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:
      "I need to look up somebody's jacket."
  5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
    Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Synonyms

  • (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
  • (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

  1. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
    • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
      ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.

Derived terms

  • bad-jacket
  • snitch-jacket

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paletot

English

Etymology

From French paletot.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?pal?t??/

Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

  1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
  2. A women’s fitted jacket.
    • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)
      For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:
      Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo

Translations


French

Etymology

From Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (cloak), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pal.to/

Noun

paletot m (plural paletots)

  1. jacket

Descendants

  • ? Catalan: paltó
  • ? English: paletot
  • ? Polish: palto
  • ? Spanish: paltó

Further reading

  • “paletot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • pelotât

References

  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN

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