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): (file)
Hyphenation: waist‧coat

Noun

waistcoat (plural waistcoats)

An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
(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

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)