Meaning of Norfolk jacket | Babel Free

Definitions

A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.

Examples

“Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.”

“Nearly all our clothing was made of a well-shrunk and very strong grey flannel, and excellent I found it for travelling in these places, because though a Norfolk jacket, shirt, and pair of trousers of it only weighed about four pounds, a great consideration in a tropical country, where every extra ounce tells on the wearer, it was warm, and offered a good resistance to the rays of the sun, and best of all to chills, which are so apt to result from sudden changes of temperature.”

“[…] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.”

“He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.”

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