English
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/
- 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)
- Indonesian: rompi (id)
- 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: rompi, weskot
- 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)
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