norfolk jacket
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Norfolk-jacketed
Norfolk suit