smoking jacket

English

A smoking jacket

Noun

smoking jacket (plural smoking jackets)

1. A men's jacket designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, typically made of soft fabric with a tie belt.

   Coordinate term: dinner jacket

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     In a desperate attempt to impress Laura, Bart begins bathing and sashaying about in a smoking jacket while sucking thoughtfully on a bubble pipe as part of his new pint-sized Hef persona.

   • 2014, Jenn Bennett, Banishing the Dark, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129:

     A tall, thin man with silver hair and black-rimmed glasses stepped into the lobby. His quilted smoking jacket made him look a little like Hugh Hefner's less decrepit brother.

Descendants

• → French: smoking (“dinner jacket”)
  • → German: Smoking
  • → Spanish: smoking, esmoquin

Translations

men's jacket to be worn while smoking

• Finnish: tupakkatakki (fi)
• French: smoking (fr) m
• Georgian: სმოკინგი (smoḳingi)
• Macedonian: пушачко палто n (pušačko palto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: røykejakke m or f

  Nynorsk: røykjejakke f

• Polish: bonżurka (pl) f
• Russian: смо́кинг (ru) m (smóking)
• Yiddish: סמאָקינג m (smoking)

Further reading

• smoking jacket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia