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At the center of the fourth is the waistcoated figure of Sobelle, who brings wine, hands out menus and takes orders.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Recently, everyone’s favorite waistcoated self-help author Jordan Peterson took a break from mistakenly tweeting out porn and declaring war on paper towel conservation to pose a “deadly serious question”:

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2023

Other footage would later show her, small, waistcoated, at the back of the crowd, holding her phone up high to capture the scene.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2019

Goya’s portrait of Don Juan Lopez de Robredo, the splendidly waistcoated embroiderer to King Carlos IV of Spain, had been valued at 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 7, 2011

The dingy waistcoated, alpaca-sleeved porter, wearing the ribbon of the Médaille Militaire on his breast, came forward.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John