Waistcoats
[weskɪts]
Examples
- At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had brilliant under-waistcoats, any one of which would have set up a moderate buck. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Harriette likes white waistcoats--Harriette commends silk stockings, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Of course not, but I don't see the use of your having seventeen waistcoats, endless neckties, and a new hat every time you come home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There are chivalric sentiments, there is high-beating courage, under those waistcoats of yours, I doubt not. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Terrence