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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'jacket' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions jacket noun  A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. A piece of a man suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat ; coat (italbrac, US) A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (eg a book, hot water tank.) A police record. Translations:  French: jaquette(fr, couverture, f}}, {{t-, fr)f Spanish: chaqueta , saco (italbrac, Latin America), americana (italbrac, Spain), gabí¡n (italbrac, Puerto Rico), paltó (italbrac, Venezuela, colloquial) verb  (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, http://books.google.com/books?vid=03y2daJFHoF0roZFPw&id=KSKq2j-pgF8C&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=%22to+jacket%22&as_brr=1 Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads :...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to the chimney for a certain portion of its length. Etymology: From jaquet, diminutive of jaque.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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