GILET Definition & Meaning

gilet

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noun

a waist- or hip-length garment, usually sleeveless, fastening up the front; sometimes made from a quilted fabric, and designed to be worn over a blouse, shirt, etc
a bodice resembling a waistcoat in a woman's dress
such a bodice as part of a ballet dancer's costume

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Origin of gilet¹

C19: French, literally: waistcoat

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He was wearing black baggy jeans with a diamond patterned stitching on them, cream-coloured trainers, a black and grey Rapha gilet and a black Rapha cap, police said.

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Most of the city is asleep, but on an athletics track just south of the River Thames one man - shivering and soaked to the bone in shorts, T-shirt and makeshift gilet fashioned from a black bin bag - is running laps.

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He has finally been persuaded that a bin-bag gilet is better than nothing.

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Robb’s bin-bag gilet is no more.

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In the body-worn footage, Eames is seen at the front of the crowd wearing a gilet with a bottle of ginger wine pushed down his waistband.

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