waistcoat

English

A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers

Etymology

waist +‎ coat

Pronunciation

• (spelling pronunciation) enPR: wās(t)'-kōt, IPA^(key): /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/
• (old-fashioned) enPR: wĕs'kət, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛskət/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

waistcoat (plural waistcoats)

1. An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
2. (chiefly Britain) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.

   Synonym: vest (US)

   Coordinate term: gilet

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

Descendants

• → Hindi: वास्कट (vāskaṭ)
• → Japanese: ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesukutto)
• → Malay: weskot
• → Maori: wēkete

Translations

a sleeveless, collarless garment

• Arabic: صُدْرِيّة‎ f (ṣudriyya), صِدَار‎ m (ṣidār)
• Armenian: ժիլետ (hy) (žilet)
• Azerbaijani: jilet (az)
• Belarusian: камізэ́лька f (kamizélʹka)
• Bulgarian: жиле́тка (bg) f (žilétka)
• Catalan: armilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坎肩 (zh) (kǎnjiān), 背心 (zh) (bèixīn)

• Czech: vesta (cs) f
• Danish: vest (da) c
• Dutch: vest (nl) n
• Faroese: vestur (fo) m
• Finnish: liivi (fi)
• French: gilet (fr) m
• Galician: chaleco (gl) m
• Georgian: ჟილეტი (žileṭi)
• German: Weste (de) f, (regional, obsolescent) Gilet (de) n
• Greek: γιλέκο (el) n (giléko)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: वास्कट (hi) (vāskaṭ)
• Hungarian: mellény (hu)
• Icelandic: vesti n
• Ido: jileto (io)
• Interlingue: gilete
• Irish: vástchóta m, bástcóta m, veist f
• Italian: panciotto (it) m, gilè (it) m, corpetto m

• Japanese: チョッキ (chokki), ベスト (ja) (besuto), ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesuo)
• Korean: 조끼 (jokki)
• Macedonian: е́лек m (élek)
• Malay: weskot, rompi
• Maori: wēkete, wetikote
• Persian: ژیله‎ (fa) (žile), جلیقه‎ (fa) (jeliqe)
• Polish: kamizelka (pl) f, bezrękawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: colete (pt) m
• Romanian: vestă (ro) f, jiletcă (ro) f
• Russian: жиле́т (ru) m (žilét), безрука́вка (ru) f (bezrukávka), жиле́тка (ru) f (žilétka)
• Scottish Gaelic: peitean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̀слук m

  Roman: pr̀sluk (sh) m

• Slovak: vesta f
• Spanish: chaleco (es) m, chalequillo m
• Swedish: väst (sv) c
• Turkish: yelek (tr)
• Ukrainian: жиле́т m (žylét)
• Venetian: xiƚè (vec) m
• Vietnamese: áo gi lê, gi-lê
• Volapük: jilät (vo)
• Walloon: djilet (wa) m
• Welsh: gwasgod f, gwasgodau f pl

Further reading

• waistcoat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia