weskit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of weskit
First recorded in 1855–60; phoneticized spelling of waistcoat
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Dashing Captain W. Rees-Davies was especially applauded for his black & gold weskit, said to be an exact duplicate of the garment once worn by Beau Nash, There was only one untoward incident.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Pusey, president of Lawrence College, sat with his class of '28, wore the crimson weskit that was the class uniform, but soberly eschewed the blue-and-white class cap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Short corduroy jacket, trousis, and weskit; red patch on the collar with F.E.R., in white letters, on it, and a cap with the same letters in brass on the front.
From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn
She hid her face in my weskit, an’ wouldn’t look up; but I coaxed her a bit, an’ when she did she wur rarely pleased.
From The Hawthorns A Story about Children by Amy Walton
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