vest
noun
a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
vestless
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a word derived from
vest.
Example Sentences
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This is doubtless the meaning of the vestless and coatless portrait of himself prefixed to the first issue of the "Leaves," to which I have referred.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
It required no small amount of pluck—as I call it—to face them—bootless, coatless, vestless, hatless, penniless, and, withal, with my feet and trousers besmeared with cow dung.
From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
Jake met us in the yard, hatless, coatless, vestless, although the temperature was flirting with the freezing point.
From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead
So did a neighboring storekeeper, a tall, lean, grave young man, clean-shaven, coatless and vestless, with a blue-glass stud on his collarless white shirt.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Scylla returns; Fearful to venture 'mid the boundless main, And vestless roams along the soaking sand; Or weary'd; finding some sequester'd pool, Cools in the shelter'd waters her fair limbs.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
