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bejacketed en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + jacket + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Synonym of jacketed.
   • Seriously, though, is this silly demoiselle any more than her bejacketed escort who executes that bow-armed, bow-legged evolution called “doing the English?” 1881, E. M. H., “Home and Society”, in Potter’s American Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine of History, Literature, Science and Art, Philadelphia, Pa.: John E. Potter & Company, page 380:
   • When, then, passing from the graceful freedom of pure savage life, one beholds them betrousered, bejacketed, waistcoated, with old wide-awakes and forage-caps and corduroys, one recoils instinctively from this first ungainly, unsightly development of civilization. 1857 August 29, “Carter’s Memoir of Bishop Armstrong”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume thirtieth, number 1522, London: Joseph Clayton, page 910:
   • The camel had been to me but an ungainly and mis-shapen monster, the type of all awkwardness, while a monkey—the caricature animal—or some bejacketed dog, on his back, had fastened the gaunt form in the memory as ludicrous. 1855, George T. Lowth, “Dreams of Travel—First Impressions—Boatmen of Alexandria—The Mysterious Figure—[…]”, in The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 6:
   • The dog had a brief disagreement with two bejacketed spaniels who, along with their owner – presumably a photographer, as he was carrying an enormous tripod – were the only beings we’d seen since we ditched the bikes. 2017, Geoff Woods, “Easter 2014”, in Looking Up, Looking Down, Matador, →ISBN, page 227:

Forms

Synonyms

jacketed