Eton jacket

American  

noun

1. a boy's black waist-length jacket with wide lapels and an open front, as worn by students at Eton College.

2. a similar short jacket worn by women.

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Eton jacket British  

noun

1. a waist-length jacket with a V-shaped back, open in front, formerly worn by pupils of Eton College

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Etymology

Origin of Eton jacket

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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Eton jacket

A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had taken off her Eton jacket and pulled on a heavy blue football sweater, and over this a reefer.

From The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis

You might cut it in latitude and turn it into an Eton jacket and a kilt, neither of much use to a Gallo-Roman beggar.

From First and Last by Hilaire Belloc

He had dressed himself fully, before going off, in his usual school suit of black Eton jacket and dark gray trousers.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dam removed his Eton jacket, folded his arms, turned his back to the smiter and assumed a scientific arrangement of the shoulders with tense muscles and coyly withdrawn bones.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren