waistcoat

waistcoat

English

A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers

Etymology

waist +‎ coat

Pronunciation

• (spelling pronunciation) enPR: wās(t)'-kōt, IPA^(key): /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/
• (old-fashioned) enPR: wĕs'kət, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛskət/

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Noun

waistcoat (plural waistcoats)

1. An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
2. (chiefly Britain) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.

   Synonym: (US) vest

   Coordinate term: gilet

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

Descendants

• → Hindi: वास्कट (vāskaṭ)
• → Japanese: ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesukutto)
• → Malay: weskot
• → Maori: wēkete
• → Punjabi: ਵਾਸਕਟ (vāskaṭ)

Translations

a sleeveless, collarless garment

Albanian: jelek (sq) m Arabic: صُدْرِيّة‎ f (ṣudriyya), صِدَار‎ m (ṣidār) Armenian: ժիլետ (hy) (žilet) Azerbaijani: jilet (az) Belarusian: камізэ́лька f (kamizélʹka), безрука́ўка f (bjezrukáŭka) Bulgarian: жиле́тка (bg) f (žilétka), еле́к m (elék), еле́че n (eléče) Catalan: armilla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 坎肩 (zh) (kǎnjiān), 背心 (zh) (bèixīn) Czech: vesta (cs) f Danish: vest (da) c Dutch: vest (nl) n Estonian: vest (et) Faroese: vestur (fo) m Finnish: liivi (fi) French: gilet (fr) m Galician: chaleco (gl) m Georgian: ჟილეტი (žileṭi) German: Weste (de) f, (regional, obsolescent) Gilet (de) n Greek: γιλέκο (el) n (giléko), γελέκο (el) n (geléko) Hebrew: וֵסְט‎ (he) m (vest) Hindi: वास्कट (hi) f (vāskaṭ) Hungarian: mellény (hu) Icelandic: vesti n Ido: jileto (io) Irish: vástchóta m, bástcóta m, veist f Italian: panciotto (it) m, gilè (it) m, corpetto m Japanese: チョッキ (chokki), ベスト (ja) (besuto), ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesuo) Kazakh: желетке (kk) (jeletke), жилет (jilet), кеудеше (keudeşe) Korean: 조끼 (jokki) Kyrgyz: желетке (ky) (jeletke) Latvian: veste f Lithuanian: liemenė f Macedonian: елек m (elek) Malay: weskot, rompi Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡝᠯᡝ (dehele) Maori: wēkete, wetikote Mongolian: Cyrillic: хантааз (mn) (xantaaz) Norwegian: Bokmål: vest (no) m Ottoman Turkish: یلك‎ (yelek) Persian: ژیله‎ (fa) (žile), جلیقه‎ (fa) (jeliqe) Polish: kamizelka (pl) f, bezrękawnik (pl) m Portuguese: colete (pt) m Punjabi: ਵਾਸਕਟ f (vāskaṭ) Romanian: vestă (ro) f, jiletcă (ro) f Russian: жиле́т (ru) m (žilét), безрука́вка (ru) f (bezrukávka), жиле́тка (ru) f (žilétka) Sangisari: جلیزقه (jelizqe) Scottish Gaelic: peitean m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пр̀слук m, јѐлек m Roman: pr̀sluk (sh) m, jèlek (sh) m Slovak: vesta f Slovene: telovnik (sl) m Southern Altai: јелек (ǰelek) Spanish: chaleco (es) m, chalequillo m Swahili: kizibao (sw) class 7/8 Swedish: väst (sv) c Tajik: камзӯлча (kamzülča) Turkish: yelek (tr) Ukrainian: жиле́т m (žylét), жиле́тка f (žylétka), безрука́вка (uk) f (bezrukávka), камізе́лька f (kamizélʹka) Uzbek: nimcha (uz), jiletka (uz) Venetian: xiƚè (vec) m Vietnamese: áo gi lê, gi-lê Volapük: jilät (vo) Walloon: djilet (wa) m Welsh: gwasgod f, gwasgodau f pl

Further reading

• waistcoat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia