monkey jacket
a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
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How to use monkey jacket in a sentence
Be on hand, my young monkey jacket; I should hate to be turned out so early for nothing.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 | James BarnesSoon a monkey-jacket mounted the side, and was beset by the captain and cabin people for news.
Redburn. His First Voyage | Herman MelvillePete was still in his stocking cap and Wellington boots, but he had a monkey-jacket over his blue guernsey.
The Manxman | Hall CaineThe last monkey-jacket I had from you a week ago I am returning for alteration.
Pincher Martin, O.D. | H. Taprell DorlingThe fellow took a firm grip of my monkey-jacket, and I made for the door.
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3 | William Clark Russell
British Dictionary definitions for monkey jacket
a short close-fitting jacket, esp a waist-length jacket similar to a mess jacket
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