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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