smoking jacket

noun

1. a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.

smoking jacket

noun

1. a man's comfortable jacket of velvet, etc, closed by a tie belt or fastenings, worn at home

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoking jacket¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Word History and Origins

Origin of smoking jacket¹

so called because it was formerly worn for smoking

Example Sentences

When Craig finally got inside, Klepikov was sitting comfortably in the living room in his underwear and a smoking jacket.

From MIT Technology Review

Pyetushkov came out of the back room in a parti-coloured smoking-jacket with tucked-up sleeves, and a strainer in his hand.

From Project Gutenberg

He was also much fatter than when I had seen him last, and he wore a smoking jacket of purple velvet.

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Renovales, in a smoking jacket, read the papers, soothed by the charming atmosphere of his quiet home.

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Ronder was wearing brown kid slippers and a dark velvet smoking-jacket.

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He had on a ragged smoking-jacket, a pair of shapeless old Romeo slippers, his ordinary business waistcoat and trousers.

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