safari jacket
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of safari jacket
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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The first part refers to the president's love for the Kaunda suit - a safari jacket with matching trousers – and Uongoman, which incorporates the Swahili word uongo, meaning "lies".
From BBC
The director, who had been scouting some mountains for his upcoming movie, wore a soiled safari jacket and smelled of sweat.
From Los Angeles Times
A single-breasted safari jacket with short or long sleeves and patch pockets — often worn with matching pants — it was initially made popular in the 1960s by Kenneth Kaunda, the first post-colonial president of Zambia.
From New York Times
This has made the Kaunda suit - a safari jacket with matching trousers - popular with the political class.
From BBC
Lehrer didn’t do anchor things — no standing in the face of a hurricane with a microphone or popping up at the scene of some international disaster in a safari jacket.
From Washington Post
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