bush jacket

American  

noun

1. a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.

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bush jacket British  

noun

1. a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt

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Etymology

Origin of bush jacket

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

I saw Gabrielle the other night out hunting in a bush jacket at some museum opening.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021

The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket.

From Time Magazine Archive

Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out stepped three U.S. guests of China: WPBoss Donald Nelson, dressed in a snappy blue suit and blue tie; Major General Patrick Hurley, wearing a bush jacket; and General Joseph Stilwell, in khaki field jacket.

From Time Magazine Archive

He bought a linen bush jacket that was radically marked down.

From O+F by Wetterau, John Moncure