Norfolk jacket

American  

noun

1. a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.

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Norfolk jacket British  

noun

1. a man's single-breasted belted jacket with one or two chest pockets and a box pleat down the back

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Etymology

Origin of Norfolk jacket

1865–70; after Norfolk county in England

Example Sentences

On a positive note: he also pioneered the Norfolk jacket.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

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

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

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 walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis