suitjacket

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Noun[edit]

suitjacket (plural suitjackets)

  1. Alternative spelling of suit jacket
    • 1968 02, Men's Wear:
      Suitpants are born to be worn with suitjackets. Together they constitute the standard white-collar work uniform of our time. But apart, either looks like an orphan. A man trying to wear suitpants casually will always look as if he just took his jacket and tie off.
    • 1985, Michael Weller, The Ballad of Soapy Smith: A Play, Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 152:
      ACT TWO. SCENE THREE Remove overcoat & hat / Remove suitjacket with lapel pin / Remove gray-blue pants / Remove black shirt with white collar []
    • 1998, Kenneth J. Weber, Five-minute Mysteries Reader, →ISBN, page 190:
      Her suitjacket is buttoned . The veil on her pillbox hat covers her forehead and comes down right to the eyes. Camera stays on her for the whole of the following exchange.
    • 2005 November 14, John D. Loscher, The Black Madonna, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 484:
      The doctor's gaze was on the right sleeve of his tuxedo suitjacket. "Again, it's part of being a doctor, I guess. I have to keep up with appearances. It never fails that some doctor at the hospital always seems to be having some kind of []"
    • 2006 June 1, James Patterson, The Thomas Berryman Number, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
      He reached inside his suitjacket. He took out a brown packet bound in ordinary elastic bands. The package was about three inches thick. “All in all, one hundred thousand to the good life,” he said rather solemnly.