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Definition of Eton jacket
1. Noun. A jacket hanging to the waist and cut square at the bottom.
Generic synonyms: Jacket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eton Jacket
Literary usage of Eton jacket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Jacket effects are shown in wash fabrics, a cutaway or eton jacket of openwork
batiste or fancy lawn opening over a full front of the same ..."
2. Physical Efficiency; a Review of the Deleterious Effects of Town Life Upon by James Cantlie (1906)
"The public school that will introduce, as a " uniform," the Norfolk, in place of
the Eton, jacket will thrive at the expense of its neighbours; ..."
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