Norfolk jacket
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Norfolk jacket
1865–70; after Norfolk county in England
Example Sentences
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On a positive note: he also pioneered the Norfolk jacket.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2017
Most evenings, wearing a rosy boutonniere in his grey Norfolk jacket, he sat down at the head of a long dining table in Johns Hopkins' Alumni Memorial Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
That mill-owner was a thickset, thick-spectacled young man worth about $20,000,000, who habitually wears straw-woven slippers and a beltless Norfolk jacket of 1917 vintage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would wear a stiff Norfolk jacket and a round white collar.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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