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Norfolk jacket en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
   • 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. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • 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. 1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, page 309:
   • He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket. 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
   • […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately. 1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174:

Forms

Deriveds

Norfolk-jacketed

Relateds

Norfolk suit