Nehru jacket

English

Etymology

After Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, who wore such a jacket.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛə.ɹuː ˈdʒæk.ɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.ɹu ˈdʒæk.ɪt/

Noun

Nehru jacket (plural Nehru jackets)

1. A hip-length tailored unisex coat with a mandarin collar, modelled on the South Asian achkan or sherwani and briefly popular in the West in the 1960s and 1970s.

Derived terms

• Nehru-jacketed

Translations

type of jacket

• Finnish: Nehru-takki, nehrutakki