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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blazer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
▪ Where you and I see blue blazers, the Manchester United captain sees a red rag.
▪ He was wearing a blue blazer and a white polo shirt.
▪ Her smart blue blazer sported a golden eagle surrounded by words he had never seen before.
▪ We both were wearing blue blazers, khakis and blue polo shirts.
▪ He was dressed in a blue blazer and white trousers as though for some pre-war cruise.
▪ There was only one I was sure of, the man in the blue blazer.
■ VERB
wear
▪ The men wore boaters and blazers, the women summer dresses.
▪ He was wearing a blue blazer and a white polo shirt.
▪ But he wore his horrible home-made blazer until he grew out of it.
▪ We both were wearing blue blazers, khakis and blue polo shirts.
▪ They are the same build, his back was to him, they wear the de rigueur blazers.
▪ They wore light-blue blazers and short gingham dresses, and their heads were very dose together.
▪ He was in his forties, wore a decrepit old blazer and flannels, and had rabbity teeth and a foolish expression.
▪ He was wearing his striped blazer and his satchel was discovered nearby.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a blue wool blazer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gone were the frivolous hats and bright blazers.
▪ He was lying face downwards in the shadow of the short diving-board, fully dressed in a blazer and white linen trousers.
▪ Our escorts, both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board - and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall.
▪ The jovial anchorman on the local news reaches into the pocket of his blazer and extracts a fortune cookie.
▪ The nearby mall is so upscale that even the Vendoland janitor is dressed in a bright red blazer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blazer

Blazer \Blaz"er\, n. One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. ``Blazers of crime.''
--Spenser.

Blazer

Blazer \Blaz"er\, n.

  1. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.

  2. A light jacket, usually of wool or silk and of a bright color, for wear at tennis, cricket, or other sport.

  3. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brasier.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blazer

"bright-colored jacket," 1880, British university slang, from blaze (n.1), in reference to the red flannel jackets worn by the Lady Margaret, St. John College, Cambridge, boating club. Earlier it had been used in American English in the sense "something which attracts attention" (1845).

Wiktionary
blazer

n. 1 A semi-formal, casual jacket. 2 A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route). 3 Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame. 4 The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier. 5 (context slang US English) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner. 6 (context archaic English) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad. 7 (context slang UK English) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.

WordNet
blazer

n. lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school [syn: sport jacket, sport coat, sports jacket, sports coat]

Wikipedia
Blazer

A blazer is a type of jacket resembling a suit jacket, but cut more casually. A blazer is generally distinguished from a sportcoat as a more formal garment and tailored from solid color fabrics. Blazers often have naval-style metal buttons to reflect their origins as jackets worn by boating club members.

A blazer's cloth is usually durable, as it is intended as outdoor wear. Blazers are often part of a uniform that denotes, for example, an airline's employees, students of a particular school, members of sports clubs, and athletes on a particular team.

Blazer (video game)

is an isometric perspective scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1987, only in Japan; it runs on the company's System 1 hardware, and was one of the first 16-bit games to use a three-quarter-view perspective (another one of them is Namco's own Pac-Mania).

Blazer (web browser)

Blazer is a web browser available for Palm handhelds running Palm OS 3.1 or higher with 8MB of free memory available.

The original version of Blazer was developed by Bluelark Systems and was released in November 2000. Bluelark Systems was acquired by Handspring a month later, in December 2000. Version 1.0 supported HTML, WAP, and the markup language used in i-Mode. Following the end of popular use of Palm OS, Blazer is no longer developed.

Blazer (disambiguation)

A blazer is an item of clothing.

Blazer or blazers may also refer to:

Blazer (EP)

Blazer is an EP by French electro house artist Kavinsky released on July 1, 2008.

Blazer (surname)

Blazer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Chuck Blazer (born 1945), American soccer administrator
  • Craig Blazer, soccer coach at DePaul University, USA
  • Dan Blazer, American psychiatrist
  • Phil Blazer (born 1936), former American football offensive guard
  • Yitzchak Blazer (1837–1907), early leader in the Musar movement

Usage examples of "blazer".

Cradled in the arm of his gold blazer is the furled green flag that he will shortly wave to signal Britt to begin his laps.

He had changed his attire from Western western to Eastern western -- a preppy dark-blue blazer with coat-of-arms.

Jannie asked them politely to leave and they kicked at the ground with the toe cap of their shoes, then deciding to obey, killed their cigarettes by pinching the heads off and put the unused stompies in their blazer pockets for use later.

Nathan rolls his blazer and curls on the only spot left him, a square of concrete slab beside an unflushed porcelain bowl half filled with liquid shit.

Blazer was a plain-faced blonde with streaks of blatantly untinted gray showing in a utilitarian ponytail.

Training was next, and we met back up with the some of the Blazer trainees.

If, after a time, the water boils, even with the lamp turned low, put the blazer into the bath and continue cooking, until the eggs are set.

Caroline stood in her jeans and sweater, a bright plaid blazer open to the raw wind, and snapped pictures from the edge of Strasse des 17 Juni, the broad boulevard running straight through the heart of the Tiergarten to the Brandenburg Gate.

Blazer with the light bar on top and with the insignia of the Cochise County Sheriff Department painted on the door.

I was surprised one warm autumn day after lunch in downtown Greenfield, as I was walking back to campus with my blue blazer slung over my shoulder, to be honked out of my reverie by a huge black Lincoln Navigator that swooshed to the curb next to me and revealed its driver to be the ethereal Naomi Cordier, Associate Professor of Dance, clad, as usual, in something diaphanous and floral.

He wore a blue blazer with a red carnation in its lapel and looked more like the deskman at an exclusive hotel than the inside doorman of an apartment building.

Soon after recovering from the Pip, known in Medical Parlance as the Spooney Infantum, he began to glory in the friendship of an incipient Amazon who wore a Blazer and walked like a Policeman.

Roman jerked the Blazer to a stop on the circular apron, then leaned across Kerrie and dug a gun out of the glove box.

If Donnie Marengo had picked up the blue blazer or the button-down shirt, he would not recognize the man in the baggy nylon warmups.

She saw Lance there in an old blue and white blazer and flannel trousers.