weskit

[ wes-kit ]

noun

1. a vest or waistcoat.

weskit

/ ˈwɛskɪt /

noun

1. an informal word for waistcoat

Word History and Origins

Origin of weskit¹

First recorded in 1855–60; phoneticized spelling of waistcoat

Example Sentences

Wery proud I was in a gold-laced hat, a drab coat and a red weskit, to sit by his side, when he drove.

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I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.

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A great blob of brown sos spurted on to master's chick, and myandrewed down his shert-collar and virging-white weskit.

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You beant' a-goin' to rig me out in a yaller weskit an' small-clothes wi' a stripe down the leg, by any chance?

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He come back in half a minute with his feet bare and his weskit all anyhow.

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