mess jacket
a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
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How to use mess jacket in a sentence
Of course, you have not got your full kit yet; but you will want a mess jacket and waistcoat.
At the Point of the Bayonet | G. A. HentyBesides, after that business of the mess-jacket, anything resembling weakness would have been fatal.
Right Ho, Jeeves | P. G. WodehouseCaptain Dixon lost no time in changing his smart mess-jacket for a thicker coat.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories | Henry Seton MerrimanAnd he walked away, limping, his white mess jacket a pale spot in the gloom.
The Firing Line | Robert W. ChambersSo he hooked the dark collar of his new mess-jacket, and went to dinner like a prince who has newly inherited his father's crown.
The Day's Work, Volume 1 | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for mess jacket
a waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back, worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners
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