bewaistcoated en · ADJ
Etymology
From be- + waistcoat + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Synonym of waistcoated.
No longer are visions of brisk streetcar executives conjured up, but the bewhiskered, bewaistcoated Councillor, full of proper civic pride at the ordered tidiness of his Corporation Tramways with their scroll-festooned standards, ruby half lights, polished mahogany and very substantial depot architecture.
1938, The Modern Tramway: The Official Organ of the Light Railway Transport League, page 217, column 1:The court itself, with its broad pavement and two lines of large houses, is not without a certain dignity. A very small amount of imagination could easily fill it with grave, bewigged and bewaistcoated merchants; ladies with powdered heads, patches and flowered damask gowns; sedan-chairs, link-boys, and all that goes with the date on the oblong tablet, set in relief on a square stone on one of the walls, where one may read, in characters such as one sees in a Tonson edition of The Spectator—[…]
1882, Lizzie Alldridge, ““Oh past that is!””, in The Tower Gardens, volume I, London: F. V. White & Co., […], page 67:To my left, a voice was rumbling querulously, emanating from a grizzled and bewaistcoated, badger-like figure.
2001, Michael Fishwick, Smashing People, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 47: