double-breasted

English

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Adjective

double-breasted (not comparable)

1. (of a jacket or coat) Closing with a double row of buttons that form a wide overlap.

   Coordinate term: single-breasted

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147:

     The train staff were at least smartly dressed. They had better be, or they were sacked. They had to keep their double-breasted uniform coats buttoned right up at all times, […]

   • 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.

Translations

closing with an overlap

• Bulgarian: двуреден (dvureden)
• Estonian: kaherealine (et), kahe nööbireaga (et)
• Finnish: kaksirivinen
• German: doppelreihig
• Hungarian: kétsoros (hu)
• Irish: dúbailte
• Italian: doppiopetto
• Russian: двубо́ртный (ru) (dvubórtnyj)