Norfolk jacket

English

Golfing costume consisting of a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, 1901.

Noun

Norfolk jacket (plural Norfolk jackets)

1. A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
   • 1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice‎^[1], Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, page 309:

     Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Nearly all our clothing was made of a well-shrunk and very strong grey flannel, and excellent I found it for travelling in these places, because though a Norfolk jacket, shirt, and pair of trousers of it only weighed about four pounds, a great consideration in a tropical country, where every extra ounce tells on the wearer, it was warm, and offered a good resistance to the rays of the sun, and best of all to chills, which are so apt to result from sudden changes of temperature.

   • 1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains‎^[2], New York: George H. Doran, page 174:

     […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.

   • 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

     He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.

Derived terms

• Norfolk-jacketed