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double-breasted en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a jacket or coat) Closing with a double row of buttons that form a wide overlap.
    • The train staff were at least smartly dressed. They had better be, or they were sacked. They had to keep their double-breasted uniform coats buttoned right up at all times,[…] 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147:
    • The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette. 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:

Coordinates

single-breasted

Translations (14)

cy croeslabedog (closing with an overlap) · hu kétsoros (closing with an overlap) · it doppiopetto (closing with an overlap) · tr çift sıra düğmeli (closing with an overlap) · el σταυρωτός (closing with an overlap) · ru двубо́ртный (closing with an overlap) · et kaherealine (closing with an overlap) · ko 더블브레스티드 (closing with an overlap) · cmn 雙排扣 /双排扣 (closing with an overlap) · bg двуреден (closing with an overlap) · ga dúbailte (closing with an overlap) · de doppelreihig (closing with an overlap) · fi kaksirivinen (closing with an overlap) · et kahe nööbireaga (closing with an overlap)

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