bejacketed

English

Alternative forms

• be-jacketed

Etymology

From be- +‎ jacket +‎ -ed.

Adjective

bejacketed (not comparable)

1. Synonym of jacketed
   • 1855, George T. Lowth, “Dreams of Travel—First Impressions—Boatmen of Alexandria—The Mysterious Figure—[…]”, in The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 6:

     The camel had been to me but an ungainly and mis-shapen monster, the type of all awkwardness, while a monkey—the caricature animal—or some bejacketed dog, on his back, had fastened the gaunt form in the memory as ludicrous.

   • 1857 August 29, “Carter’s Memoir of Bishop Armstrong”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume thirtieth, number 1522, London: Joseph Clayton, page 910:

     When, then, passing from the graceful freedom of pure savage life, one beholds them betrousered, bejacketed, waistcoated, with old wide-awakes and forage-caps and corduroys, one recoils instinctively from this first ungainly, unsightly development of civilization.

   • 1881, E. M. H., “Home and Society”, in Potter’s American Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine of History, Literature, Science and Art, Philadelphia, Pa.: John E. Potter & Company, page 380:

     Seriously, though, is this silly demoiselle any more than her bejacketed escort who executes that bow-armed, bow-legged evolution called “doing the English?”

   • 2017, Geoff Woods, “Easter 2014”, in Looking Up, Looking Down, Matador, →ISBN, page 227:

     The dog had a brief disagreement with two bejacketed spaniels who, along with their owner – presumably a photographer, as he was carrying an enormous tripod – were the only beings we’d seen since we ditched the bikes.