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gilet
/ ɪˈɪ /
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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gilet1
Example Sentences
He was wearing black baggy jeans with a diamond patterned stitching on them, cream-coloured trainers, a black and grey Rapha gilet and a black Rapha cap, police said.
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.
He has finally been persuaded that a bin-bag gilet is better than nothing.
Robb’s bin-bag gilet is no more.
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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