double-breasted jacket

Examples

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• Wearing an elaborate, double-breasted jacket with a red lining, he would appear in the dining room, settle into his armchair, and give his cup to her.

  Fiction book (2000)

• She sees grey lizard shoes, grey pinstriped trousers, grey silk shirt, Billy Eckstein collar, yellow silk tie, and a double-breasted jacket.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Well, you have chosen the double-breasted jacket, sir, - with the four buttons.

  Vera Drake (2004)

• So with double breasted jackets, I block things out a little bit more.

• Hank, who has already removed his double-breasted jacket and loosened his tie, walks out in his sweat-stained shirt.

  Fiction book (1990)

• He touched me on the shoulder and pulled a glittering cigarette case from the pocket of his double-breasted jacket.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Slimmer rectangles and often double breasted jackets and coats widen a figure.

• He was wearing a big dark double-breasted jacket and white pants, like some old jazz musician—sharp, but with that shuffling style, though I doubt he shuffled; he seemed secure.

  Fiction book (1997)

• He slips into the double-breasted jacket, knots the silk tie, folds a handkerchief, and tucks it into the jacket pocket, all with great deliberation.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He wore a stylish double-breasted jacket with two rows of buttons to the formal event.

Antonyms

S

single-breasted jacket

3.3

A jacket with one row of buttons and a front that overlaps slightly

How Formal

tailcoat

1 6.8

double-breasted jacket

1 4.2

single-breasted jacket

3.3

blazer

52 2.5

bomber jacket

2 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology