justaucorps

American  

[zhoo-stuh-kawr, -kohr, zhyst-oh-kawr] / ˈʒu stəˌkɔr, -ˌkoʊr, ʒüst oʊˈkɔr /

noun

plural

justaucorps

1. a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Etymology

Origin of justaucorps

First recorded in 1650–60, justaucorps is from French juste au corps “fitting to the body”

Example Sentences

Trois Justaucorps, conte bleu, tiré de l'Anglois du Révérend Mr. Jonathan Swif. . . . avec les Trois Anneaux, nouvelle tirée de Boccace.

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Justaucorps, 53. 603Juxon, Archbishop William, 285 n.

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Raoul had thrust his hand up to the wrist into his justaucorps in great agitation.

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After this exclamation, the officer arose and marched, with his hands in the pockets of his justaucorps, about the immense ante-chamber that served him as an apartment.

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This engineer, who by his evident importance first attracted the attention of D'Artagnan, wore a justaucorps, which, from its sumptuousness, was scarcely in harmony with the work he was employed in, that rather necessitated the costume of a master-mason than of a noble.

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