0 a piece of clothing that covers the upper body but not the arms and usually has buttons down the front, worn over a shirt
If at all used by men, ducats (usually very few) would be on a hatband or, even more rarely, on a waistcoat chain.
It is rarely worn without a waistcoat or jacket over it.
Thus, through their meticulous attention to the sounding of every syllable in a word, they said neighbourhood instead of 'neighbrud', landscape instead of 'lenskip', and waistcoat instead of 'weskit'.
The waistcoat and trousers were exhibited, but were without bloodstains.
There was the brush for brushing down a horse; it did not attract tax; but the brush for brushing a waistcoat did.
Our trouble has been, how are we going to confine the great and noble art of architecture in a strait waistcoat.
It is not considered necessary to provide life-saving waistcoats in addition.
Cardigans have long sleeves and need more materials; slip-overs have no sleeves and need less material; and waistcoats are made of a different material.