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Noun
[edit]mess jacket (plural mess jackets)
- A double-breasted jacket, part of mess kit.
- 1905, H. G. Wells, Kipps[1], New York: Scribner, published 1906, Chapter 5, §3, pp. 273-274:
- “I often wonder,” he said, “whether I oughtn’t to dress for dinner—when I’m alone ’ere.” ¶ Coote protruded his lips and reflected. “Not full dress,” he adjudicated; “that would be a little excessive. But you should change, you know. Put on a mess jacket and that sort of thing—easy dress […] .”