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Shell jacket   /ʃɛl dʒˈækət/   Listen
Shell jacket

noun
1.
Waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners.  Synonyms: mess jacket, monkey jacket.





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"Shell jacket" Quotes from Famous Books



... lives here at all. You see how small and delicate a thing it is. They say it is blind, but you observe it is not; although the creatures live mostly underground. They also say that the chlamyphorus truncatus—which is the grand name for my wee friend,—carries its young under this pink or rosy shell jacket, but this I very much doubt. Now go to ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables


Words linked to "Shell jacket" :   mess jacket, jacket


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