Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

matinée jacket

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: mati-nee -jack-et
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage

Example Sentences

"“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."

Usage

Inflected Forms

matinée jackets (plural) matinee jacket (alternative)

Questions

What does matinée jacket mean?: A short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.

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