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Answer for the clue "Short jacket ", 6 letters:
caraco

Word definitions for caraco in dictionaries

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A caraco is a style of woman's jacket that was fashionable from the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. Caracos were thigh-length and opened in front, with tight, three-quarter or long sleeves . Like gowns of the period , the back of the caraco could be fitted ...

Usage examples of caraco.

Clarke leads them on a flight down Main Street: Fischer, Caraco, a couple of cargo squids on remote.

Lubin, Brander, Caraco have appeared at the edges of her vision, drifting into the room like indifferent wraiths.

She wonders, not for the first time, if Caraco really belongs down here.

Alice Nakata and Judy Caraco spoon around each other on that tiny bunk.

Clarke reaches out and grabs the line that he and Caraco are attached to.

She tries the same trick, drag arching her back, while Caraco calls out to Nakata.

A thin contrail of bubbles streaks from Caraco to monster, connecting the two in an instant.

Judy Caraco and Lenie Clarke outside today, and witnessed several events that concern me.

In came a maid, looking much like maids anywhere, large cap to protect her hair, simple caraco jacket and heavy petticoat.

Over a mantelpiece of cypresswood painted to resemble marble hung the portrait of a young woman clad in the caraco jacket popular in the nineties.

Saladin having thrown a strong garrison into the place under the command of Caracos, his own master in the art of war, and molesting the besiegers with continual attacks and sallies, had protracted the success of the enterprise, and wasted the force of his enemies.