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monkey jacket
noun
- a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
monkey jacket
noun
- a short close-fitting jacket, esp a waist-length jacket similar to a mess jacket
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of monkey jacket1
Example Sentences
We hurried into our cabinâours, alas! no moreâand exchanged our hats for caps, and put on our monkey jacketsâour winter ones.
"Be on hand, my young monkey jacket; I should hate to be turned out so early for nothing."
In the stern sheets sat a tall, upright figure, the tiller ropes in either hand, dressed in a monkey jacket, pilot cloth trousers, and a sailorâs cap.
He wrapped the whole charge, except for one small corner, in several pieces of the men's discarded clothingâmonkey jackets, thick sweaters, a dirty towelâand stuffed it in an empty tin container for sea-biscuits.
Still another belt encircled me, and, though I had come up warmly clad in woolen shirts and monkey jacket, I felt these garments being torn away from me.
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