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Norfolk jacket

Norfolk jacket \Norfolk jacket\ A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.

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Norfolk jacket

A Norfolk jacket is a loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front, with a belt or half-belt. The style was long popular for boys' jackets and suits, and is still used in some (primarily military and police) uniforms. It was originally designed as a shooting coat that did not bind when the elbow was raised to fire. It was named either after the Duke of Norfolk or after the county of Norfolk and was made fashionable after the 1860s in the sporting circle of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, whose country residence was Sandringham House in Norfolk.

Usage examples of "norfolk jacket".

I wore corduroy knickerbockers, long black knit stockings, a kind of Norfolk jacket, and a cloth cap with a peak.

The man in the Norfolk jacket, described by Flashman, was probably Henry Burgevine (1836-65), Ward's lieutenant, who briefly commanded the Ever-Victorious Army in the interval between Ward's death and Gordon's appointment.

She put the brown back on the hanger and took out the Norfolk jacket.

A teacher dressed in a Norfolk jacket moved across the blackening floor and took Del's arm, twisted it savagely around his back, and yanked him away.

Or perhaps in his emotional state he leaned too heavily on the chalk, just as he had left his Norfolk jacket lying on the floor.

He wore a new Stetson hat with a flat crown, a tan Norfolk jacket with a belt buckle of mother-of-pearl.

He wore a fine Stetson hat, a Norfolk jacket, and in his later years carried his gun in a shoulder holster.

He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.

He wore a pewter grey silk suit, with a boxy jacket, cut like a Norfolk jacket but without lapels.

He was dressed in a lurid green Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, and sucking on a pipe.