单词 | jackanapes coat |
释义 | > as lemmasjackanapes coat jackanapes coat n. now historical (a) a flamboyant, brightly coloured coat, esp. one fashionable in the Restoration period; (b) a short close-fitting jacket, esp. as worn by sailors; = monkey jacket n. 1.In quot. 1626 perhaps with the depreciative sense ‘a showy coat of the type a vain or ostentatious person might wear’; cf. sense 3. ΚΠ 1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece i. iv. 46 A yeeres penance there in the Inquisition house with wearing a Iackanapes Coat of many colours..euery Holy-day during the time of Masse for one whole yeare. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 5 July (1970) I. 193 This morning my brother Tom brought me my Jackanapes coat with silver buttons. 1845 C. MacFarlane Dutch in Medway ii. 36 I had but two cloth coats in the world, and that grey jackanapes coat with the black bindings I was fain to make last for Sundays and holidays for three whole years. 1978 ‘V. Sherwood’ This Towering Passion x. 165 Today he was wearing one of the new ‘jackanapes’ coats of heavily embroidered greenish-gold satin. 2005 B. Little Sea Rover's Pract. (2007) viii. 88 Short tarred ‘jackanapes’ coats were usual, as were sea coats made of pilot cloth. < as lemmas |
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