waistcoat

English

A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers

Etymology

From waist +‎ coat. Compare Yola wauscoat, wazcoote.

Pronunciation

• (spelling pronunciation) enPR: wās(t)'-kōt, IPA^(key): /ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/
• (dated) enPR: wĕs'kət, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛskət/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: waist‧coat

Noun

waistcoat (plural waistcoats)

1. An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
2. (chiefly British) A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.

   Synonym: (US) vest

   Coordinate term: gilet

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

Derived terms

• shawl waistcoat
• straitwaistcoat

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: वास्कट (vāskaṭ)
• → Japanese: ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesukutto)
• → Malay: weskot
• → Maori: wēkete
• → Punjabi: ਵਾਸਕਟ (vāskaṭ)

Translations

a sleeveless, collarless garment

• Albanian: jelek (sq) m
• Arabic: صُدْرِيّة f (ṣudriyya), صِدَار m (ṣidār)
• Armenian: ժիլետ (hy) (žilet)
• Azerbaijani: jilet (az)
• Belarusian: камізэ́лька f (kamizélʹka), безрука́ўка f (bjezrukáŭka)
• Bulgarian: жиле́тка (bg) f (žilétka), еле́к m (elék), еле́че n (eléče)
• Catalan: armilla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坎肩 (zh) (kǎnjiān), 背心 (zh) (bèixīn)

• Czech: vesta (cs) f
• Danish: vest (da) c
• Dutch: vest (nl) n
• Estonian: vest (et)
• Faroese: vestur (fo) m
• Finnish: liivi (fi)
• French: gilet (fr) m
• Galician: chaleco (gl) m
• Georgian: ჟილეტი (žileṭi)
• German: Weste (de) f, (regional, obsolescent) Gilet (de) n
• Greek: γιλέκο (el) n (giléko), γελέκο (el) n (geléko)
• Hebrew: וֵסְט (he) m (vest)
• Hindi: वास्कट (hi) f (vāskaṭ)
• Hungarian: mellény (hu)
• Icelandic: vesti n
• Ido: jileto (io)
• Irish: vástchóta m, bástcóta m, veist f
• Italian: panciotto (it) m, gilè (it) m, corpetto (it) m
• Japanese: チョッキ (ja) (chokki), ベスト (ja) (besuto), ウェストコート (wesutokōto), ウェスクット (wesuo)
• Kazakh: желетке (kk) (jeletke), жилет (jilet), кеудеше (keudeşe)
• Korean: 조끼 (jokki)
• Kyrgyz: желетке (ky) (jeletke)
• Latvian: veste f
• Lithuanian: liemenė f
• Macedonian: елек m (elek)
• Malay: weskot, rompi
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡝᠯᡝ (dehele)
• Maori: wēkete, wetikote
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хантааз (mn) (xantaaz)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vest (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: یلك (yelek)
• Persian: ژیله (fa) (žile), جلیقه (fa) (jeliqe)
• Polish: kamizelka (pl) f, bezrękawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: colete (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਵਾਸਕਟ f (vāskaṭ)
• Romanian: vestă (ro) f, jiletcă (ro) f
• Russian: жиле́т (ru) m (žilét), безрука́вка (ru) f (bezrukávka), жиле́тка (ru) f (žilétka)
• Sangisari: جلیزقه (jelizqe)
• Scottish Gaelic: peitean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̀слук m, јѐлек m

  Roman: pr̀sluk (sh) m, jèlek (sh) m

• Slovak: vesta f
• Slovene: telovnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: жилет (žilet)
• Spanish: chaleco (es) m, chalequillo m
• Swahili: kizibao (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: väst (sv) c
• Tajik: камзӯлча (kamzülča)
• Turkish: yelek (tr)
• Ukrainian: жиле́т m (žylét), жиле́тка f (žylétka), безрука́вка (uk) f (bezrukávka), камізе́лька f (kamizélʹka)
• Uzbek: nimcha (uz), jiletka (uz)
• Venetan: xiƚè (vec) m
• Vietnamese: áo gi-lê, gi-lê
• Volapük: jilät (vo)
• Walloon: djilet (wa) m
• Welsh: gwasgod f, gwasgodau f pl
• Yiddish: קאַמזויל (kamzoyl)

Further reading

• waistcoat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia