jacket
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Wakeley says a well-cut camisole or strappy top can work when worn beneath a linen overshirt, lightweight jacket or tailored co-ord.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The small boats involved in Channel crossings can be overcrowded, too flimsy, and not everyone wears a life jacket, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
A Portland teenager paid $3.07 at Goodwill for a Wilt Chamberlain Lakers warmup jacket that sold for nearly $90,000 at auction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Hailey Bieber modeled it with an unzipped jacket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
His necktie was loosened over his vest, his suit jacket on the hat stand beside the door.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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My grandmother made holiday decorations for the house, and my grandfather worked with leather, making jackets and boots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We’d have these jackets with a big Chargers lightning bolt, the dark-blue stuff before the baby-blue stuff was en vogue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The blaze originated in the stern, sending passengers fleeing to the bow where they were all given life jackets, Muhammad said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, 13 children were aboard the overcrowded dinghy piloted by Yuk two days earlier - some of whom were not wearing life jackets.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then the pictures of towels on benches, deserted cars, and lost jackets.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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A slightly overcast sky for the first race eventually gave way to sunshine, warming the mostly jacketed crowd announced at 37,143.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Meanwhile, one of the jacketed bartenders will almost certainly be bending over a shaker or holding it in the air.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2021
Shooting a 160-grain jacketed bullet at almost 2,000 feet per second, it was a speed demon at the time.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
The open kitchen was crowded, too, as a crew of jacketed cooks prepped and flipped patties.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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The students have been asked to design a new fabric to be used for menswear sport jacketing.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023
Book jackets so seldom reflect the nature of what they are jacketing that Philippe Halsman's photo for this collection of Author Moravia's short stories deserves attention.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The object of jacketing is to prevent the loss of heat from the steam within the cylinder by radiation.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Ornamental brass jacketing was extensively used on mid-19th-century American locomotives to cover not only the cylinders but steam and sand boxes, check valves, and valve boxes.
From The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 by White, John H.
In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be taken that the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various