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

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Norfolk jacket

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

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2017

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

Many of this fall's clothes for men and women will feature a British accent, with lots of strict tailoring: heathery tweeds for men, an elongated Norfolk jacket for women worn with a contrasting tweed skirt.

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

He wore a fine Stetson hat, a Norfolk jacket, and in his later years carried his gun in a shoulder holster.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck