English A traditional waistcoat , to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers Etymology waist coat
Pronunciation Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "spelling pronunciation " is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . enPR : wās(t)'-kōt , IPA (key ) : /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/ Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "old-fashioned" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . enPR : wĕs'kət , IPA (key ) : /ˈwɛskət/ Noun waistcoat (plural waistcoats
An ornamental garment worn under a doublet .
( chiefly British ) sleeveless , collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket .
Synonym: ( US ) vest 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 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)
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Irish: vástchóta m bástcóta m veist f
Italian: panciotto (it) m gilè (it) m corpetto m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}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
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