weskit
9.9
A garment without sleeves that you wear over a shirt, often with a suit
- noun
- /ˈwɛskɪt/
- Archaic
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chaleco
- The tailor adjusted the fit of the weskit for a more polished look.
Examples
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He wore a smart weskit beneath his suit jacket for the wedding.
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Grandpere carried his gold watch on a chain in his pocket, and he wore a waistcoat, which was pronounced weskit.
Fiction book (2000) -
She selected a patterned weskit to complement her formal outfit.
Synonyms
8
6.5
A piece of clothing people wear under a jacket, often with a suit
is an old fashioned term for the same garment
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Weskit is an old form of waistcoat, made from the parts waist 'middle of the body' and coat 'outer jacket', and people said the word faster so it became weskit. So a weskit means a vest or waistcoat worn with a suit.