smoking jacket

American  

noun

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

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smoking jacket British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of smoking jacket

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Alongside pieces of art are clothes worn by Hefner, a smoking jacket, silk pyjamas, slippers and tobacco pipe.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024

Thirty-five years later with “Renfield,” Cage is finally playing the genuine article, complete with bloodthirsty fangs and a dapper velvet smoking jacket.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023

Kwan’s crimson tux with “Punk” emblazoned across the back was a custom piece from the L.A. label Goodfight — a smoking jacket version of a cardigan Yeoh’s character, Evelyn, wore in the movie.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

Later in the evening, Shteyngart reappeared in a red and black smoking jacket that he used to wear semi-ironically at parties he threw in Brooklyn.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2021

He read the article and choked, spitting liquid onto his smoking jacket.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole