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waistcoat

noun as in petticoat

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Example Sentences

He wears his characteristic white shalwar kameez with a tattered gray waistcoat.

A little gospel here, a little Chesterton there, a little waistcoat here.

At another point he forgot his waistcoat, and sent another man to look for it.

She took the podium in a black McQueen waistcoat embroidered with gold flowers and knee-high leather boots.

His dove gray waistcoat matched his jacket and Lillian decided his trousers were a hideous shade of yellowish-brown.

I broke right into his story and seized the lapel of his waistcoat as though he were my dearest friend.

From his waistcoat pocket he took a little silver convex mirror and surveyed himself critically therein.

Still kneeling, he drew from his waistcoat pocket a powerful lens contained in a washleather bag.

Rapidly he removed his reefer and his waistcoat, folded them, and placed them neatly beside his overall.

So I put on my life-saving waistcoat and blew it out; clapped my new gas-mask on my head and entered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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