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gilet
/ dʒɪˈleɪ /
noun
- a waist- or hip-length garment, usually sleeveless, fastening up the front; sometimes made from a quilted fabric, and designed to be worn over a blouse, shirt, etc
- a bodice resembling a waistcoat in a woman's dress
- such a bodice as part of a ballet dancer's costume
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gilet1
C19: French, literally: waistcoat
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Example Sentences
Most of the city is asleep, but on an athletics track just south of the River Thames one man - shivering and soaked to the bone in shorts, T-shirt and makeshift gilet fashioned from a black bin bag - is running laps.
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He has finally been persuaded that a bin-bag gilet is better than nothing.
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Robb’s bin-bag gilet is no more.
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In the body-worn footage, Eames is seen at the front of the crowd wearing a gilet with a bottle of ginger wine pushed down his waistband.
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She twice stole from a Tommy Hilfiger store in Bridgend, which amounted to a total of nearly £500, hiding clothes within her gilet jacket.
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