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shirt-jac en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of jac-shirt.
    alt of jac-shirt
    • Left: Green and yellow “shirt-jac” (combined shirt and jacket), cotton blend, spread collar, chest patch pocket, center front button closure, excellent condition. $42 2012, Zac Bissonnette, Warman's Antiques & Collectibles 2013 Price Guide, →ISBN:
    • Then there are the JEANS JACKETS which are nothing more than a contemporary shirt-jac. 1971, Men's Wear - Volume 164, page 52:
    • That is, "Uniform and Weapon" contemplates the shirt-jac, object/icon of black men's material culture in the Caribbean, as a visual sign of the ambivalence of black Caribbean men between bourgeois English affect, which the shirt-jac's modernist material and colonial bush-jacket design cannot escape recalling, and "the revolutionary 'hard man' seriousness associated with Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution." 2007, Howard Dodson, Colin A. Palmer, Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions, page 166:

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