single-breasted
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- adjective
- /ˈsɪŋɡəlˈbrɛstɪd/
:
de un solo botón
- Caroline wears a pale blue suit, and Dwight looks good in a navy single-breasted suit.
- single-breasted suit
- single-breasted jacket
- single-breasted coat
Examples
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Geoffrey Shafer, dashingly outfitted in a single-breasted blue blazer, white shirt, striped tie, and narrow gray trousers from H. Huntsman.
Fiction book (1999) -
Caroline wears a pale blue suit, and Dwight looks good in a navy single-breasted suit.
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He was dressed in a suit, single-breasted with a belt in the back the way they wore them then.
Fiction book (2000) -
He wears a black single-breasted sport coat and a striped tie.
Fiction book (1990) -
He is wearing a single-breasted navy sport jacket and a grey fedora.
Fiction book (1990) -
A broad-chested stump of a man straining at the seams of a single-breasted, pinstriped suit.
Fiction book (1996) -
Karp himself was not interested in clothes and always wore the same outfit: a dark, pin-striped, single-breasted suit of appropriate weight for the season, a white shirt, a tie with some infinitesimal dark pattern, and highly shined black shoes.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her signature piece is a fitted, single-breasted black coat.
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If you're looking for more versatility, Brown recommends a single-breasted jacket.
Antonyms
How Many Rows
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Single-breasted comes from the parts single ('one') and breast ('chest'), originally describing a coat with only one front over the chest. So a single-breasted jacket is narrow and fastens with a single row of buttons, unlike a double-breasted coat that has two overlapping fronts.