sports-jacketed
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From sports jacket + -ed.
Adjective[edit]
sports-jacketed (not comparable)
- Wearing a sports jacket.
- 1939 June 9, “U.S. Ambassador at Cambridge; May Week Degrees Conferred; Senate House Ceremony”, in Cambridge Independent Press & Chronicle, page 15:
- Sports-jacketed, grey-flannelled undergraduates watched the scene from the well-filled gallery, while others gathered in the brilliant sunshine in the street outside to watch the colourful procession of University officers and others proceed to and depart from the Senate House.
- 1941 January 29, Marjorie Martin, “Badminton Fans Contribute $1400 to British Fund”, in Boston Evening Globe, volume CXXXIX, number 29, page 19:
- Mink-coated and sports-jacketed spectators alike loudly applauded the amateur-professional mixed encounter in which Mrs. Roy Bergman of Westport, Conn., co-holder of the national doubles title, and Davidson outplayed Miss Mary Whittemore of Boston, 1939 national champion, and Basil Jones, 15—7, 15—8.
- 2007 May 25, Mike Tierney, “Complaints: Vents on stock, service”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 59, number 145, page G5:
- Weiler withheld final judgment on the customer ultra-care he was suddenly receiving from orange-aproned note-takers and a sports-jacketed executive.