A man's tunic or coat, originally a garment reaching to the knees or lower, sometimes forming the only body-garment, but more usually worn with a…

A ragged upper garment.

A kind of tunic or upper garment; also a rich stuff or fabric used for this garment.

An outer coat or garment, commonly of rich material, worn by people of rank of both sexes; often worn by armed men over their armour, and having…

A man's short coat or jacket; a sleeved doublet, esp. worn beneath (or as) armour.

A short coat, cloak, or tabard of coarse material worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.

A small tunic; also figurative a wrapping, covering, integument. Obsolete.

A tunic, frequently worn under the hauberk.

A close-fitting tunic or doublet; esp. one worn by knights under the hauberk, sometimes of thick stuff and padded; later, a sleeveless surcoat…

A man's tight-fitting undercoat, usually padded and worn under a doublet and over a shirt; (also) a padded jerkin worn under armour for…

An over-garment for out-door use.

A garment or front panel, sometimes richly decorated, worn in the 15th and 16th centuries by both men and women beneath an open coat or gown; a…

= gabardine, n. adj.

A garment (usually tight-fitting) covering the body as distinct from the limbs.

A close-fitting body-garment or jacket formerly worn by men and women; cf. trussing-bolster n., trussing-coat n. at trussing, n. compounds 2. Obsolete…

A short tunic, cassock, or jacket worn by men, later also by women.

Any of various close-fitting garments; spec. (a) a knee-length, tight-fitting style of coat worn by men in the second half of the 17th cent. and…

padded clothing in front of the belly.

A short garment worn beneath the coat or jacket as a usual part of male attire; a waistcoat. Now North American.

A man's juste-au-corps.

Sometimes used for a woman's outer garment; esp. in modern use, a stout buttoned overcoat.

A garment worn over other clothes, an outer garment; a mantle.

A rectangular garment, with a tassel of twisted and knotted cord attached to each of the four corners, and a large hole in the centre for a person's…

An article of women's attire, formerly an outer garment, later worn under a gown of lace or similar material. Also transferred, an infant's…

A warm wrap or overgarment, as a cloak or similar article of dress. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. trot-cosy, n.

A loose-fitting overgarment of various forms, traditionally worn by esp. Arab men and women. Cf. abaya, n.

A type of woman's cloak (see quot. 1800).

A long, loose-fitting overgarment, typically made of wool, traditionally worn in some Arab countries; = aba, n.1

In Spain, esp. Andalusia, and Spanish-speaking countries: an overskirt or short-sleeved overdress, typically black in colour, worn outdoors by…

A tassel of twisted and knotted cord attached to the corners of the tallith (tallith, n.) or arba kanfot; such tassels collectively. Hence (with sin…

A close-fitting garment with sleeves, formerly worn by both sexes.

A length of cotton cloth, worn as an outer garment by indigenous peoples of northern and central Africa (see quot. 1889), and in some regions used…

A long outer garment worn by Turkish women.

Men's trousers or shorts; boy's short trousers. Usually in derogatory contexts. Now rare.

A tightly-fitting upper garment or tunic worn by women from ancient times; also sometimes by men, esp. the tunic or surcoat made shorter in front…

A vest without sleeves, leaving the shoulders bare; worn by artisans and slaves.

The outer garment worn by the ancient Greeks: ‘an oblong piece of cloth thrown over the left shoulder, and fastened either over or under the right’…

A kind of loose outer jacket or shirt reaching to the hips, made of canvas, serge, coarse linen, etc., and worn by sailors, truckmen, etc.; (also)…

(a) U.S. a waist-length dress or undress military coat; (b) the upper part of a soldier's or airman's battledress.

Fashion. The part of a woman's jacket or tunic which hangs below the waist; a jacket or tunic having such a design; †a kind of overskirt resembling…

= exomis, n.

Dressmaking. The French word for any ready-made article of attire, used particularly, in reference to fashionable female apparel, of mantles…

A thick quilted woollen over-garment worn by sailors in cold weather. Also lammy coat, lammy suit.

Used vaguely or typically for an upper garment.

Australian (originally Tasmania). A hard-wearing woollen outer garment, now usually a jacket or coat, typically grey-blue in colour. Also: the…

(see quot. 1900).

In various technical applications. Originally: a piece of female dress covering the neck and shoulders, worn with a certain kind of gown made…

A lightweight top worn in hot sunny weather, typically having thin shoulder straps instead of sleeves and often a low-cut neck and back.

A white outer garment worn as camouflage by Inuit hunters of Labrador.

A sleeveless, collarless, and buttonless garment for the upper body; spec. (a) a close-fitting garment with a scooped neck, similar to a vest (vest…

A Vietnamese woman's high-necked tunic with ankle-length panels at front and back, worn over trousers.

Short for tank, n.1. colloquial.