Meaning of matinée jacket | Babel Free

Definitions

A short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.

Australia, New-Zealand, UK

Examples

““I just can't see⟳ you with wool and needles,” she said in amusement one day on the phone when Kerry told her she was halfway through a tiny white matinée jacket.”

“She gestured to her knitting. "I'm just running her up a little matinée jacket." .”

“It was meant to be a matinée jacket but it bore a far stronger resemblance to a string vest, so many and various were the holes where the inexpert knitter had dropped stitches.”

“I'll feel⟳ silly fronting up to George Hocken and asking him for the loan of a baby matinee jacket," I complained. "And I don't know⟳ where he lives anyway."”

“The Martin Report⟳, a document containing new evidence against the Crown's case, was dismissed, and not until Azaria's missing matinee jacket was found in February 1986 was the need⟳ for a judicial inquiry established.”

“The loveliest little matinee jacket for a baby can be made of thin silk trimmed with Italian Quilting.”

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