The Collaborative International Dictionary
Justico \Jus"ti*co\, Justicoat \Jus"ti*coat`\, n. [F. justaucorps, lit., close to the body.] Formerly, a close coat or waistcoat with sleeves.
Usage examples of "justicoat".
He had removed his justicoat earlier, draping it across his cot and turning back his sleeve cuffs to his elbows.
He drew his justicoat over his shoulders, pulling his heavily lined woolen great coat over this.
He wore a puffed and powdered wig, and a garish ensemble of matching justicoat, waistcoat and breeches, his ruffled cravat sprouting from beneath his overlapping chins like the desperate hand of a drowning victim, flailing for aid.
He could feel the hands moving slowly against him, removing his justicoat and cravat, setting to work on the buttons of his shirt.
He had been roused from his bed to meet with Aedhir, and wore a hastily knotted cravat drooped over a rumbled shirt with a red justicoat drawn overtop.
Rhyden asked, glancing toward his steward as he draped a justicoat across the crook of his arm, meaning to add it to the clothes he gathered on his mattress.
Kierken offered, pressing his hand against the lapel of his justicoat and folding briefly at the waist.
Rhyden said, pressing his fist against the lapel of his justicoat and lowering his head politely to the handmaid.
As he moved, he dipped his hand into his justicoat pocket, finding his flints.
Eisean saw a bright purple justicoat and starched, ruffled ascot with a monstrous, hideous, mummified head floating above it, only scraps of thin flesh covering bulbous eyes and the gaping, horrible, toothless maw of its mouth.
He slipped his hand into the pocket of his justicoat, letting the round stone fall within the lined, woolen folds.
Rhyden and he tucked the flower into the deep pocket of his justicoat, pressing his hand against the fabric to flatten the petals beneath.
He felt the wind flutter against his hair, flapping lightly against the tails of his justicoat as he looked up at the wall.
His justicoat hung lopsided on him, the flaps tangled about his legs, and he limped about in wide, clumsy circles, his knees seeming unwilling to support his weight in full.
The wind whipped around him, and his justicoat billowed, his hair flying wildly.