mess jacket


noun
  1. 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.

Origin of mess jacket

1
First recorded in 1890–95

Words Nearby mess jacket

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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.

  • Besides, after that business of the mess-jacket, anything resembling weakness would have been fatal.

    Right Ho, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
  • Captain Dixon lost no time in changing his smart mess-jacket for a thicker coat.

    Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories | Henry Seton Merriman
  • And he walked away, limping, his white mess jacket a pale spot in the gloom.

    The Firing Line | Robert W. Chambers
  • So 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

mess jacket

noun
  1. a waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back, worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners

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