What's the difference between toilinette and waistcoat?
Toilinette
Definition:
(n.) A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats.
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Waistcoat
Definition:
(n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
(n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-six Wistar rats were subdivided into 4 group: 1) control; 2) "waistcoat" plastic surgery; 3) plastic surgery using a vicryl prosthesis.
(2) But a staff member wearing the telltale red ID pass but dressed in a shirt and tie rather than high-vis waistcoat – he would only say his role was "management" – took a different view.
(3) While the residents are invisible, their staff can be seen: cleaning golf clubs with a hose in front of one house; wearing a black waistcoat and ironed white shirt to polish a bronze door handle; walking tiny dogs.
(4) In the video, Voteman finds himself in bed with a group of women before donning a leather waistcoat and jetting off on a pair of dolphin waterskis to assault non-voters all the way to the polling station, decapitating one while he eats breakfast.
(5) "I do still have one of those waistcoats with patches all over it, and a Motörhead skull on the back.
(6) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(7) George Osborne dons a hi-viz waistcoat and wanders around Ebbsfleet .
(8) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
(9) Instead, I found myself designing pieces that are the cornerstones of Sicilian style: pinstriped or velvet suits, coats, waistcoats, white shirts and the flat cap known as the coppola.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Friends of the designers, Linda Evangelista, left, and Naomi Campbell backstage at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan.
(10) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
(11) Not that it always works in their favour – by the mid-90s, Merchant-Ivory had became something of an inverse snobbery insult, signifying something stuffy and dull, all starched waistcoats and askance glances across the class divide, of interest only to Laura Ashley fans.
(12) • £125, +30 27360 31488, kythirarooms.gr Where to eat Zorbas This grill house is so old-fashioned the waiters still dress in white shirts and black waistcoats.
(13) They went to fee-paying London schools and now they're all about heels and waistcoats and hoedowns.
(14) When the insurgency started, he returned to his home town, and now he looked every inch the fighter, with a flowing beard, irregular fatigues, and a waistcoat with pockets for knives and ammunition.
(15) He comes to the door in a pale grey suit with waistcoat and orange tie, and settles in a sofa facing me, affably, in his book-lined sitting room.
(16) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
(17) Armed men in masks threatened staff before making off with Cézanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughters, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh's Blooming Chestnut Branches , Zurich police said.
(18) If all I have to do, these days, is carry around forever in my waistcoat a baby stiletto for "opening things better" – toothbrush packaging, lying "easy-open" biscuits – and stutter a bit on the phone (it's improving), then I've fallen lucky.
(19) You'd look quite good in a big helmet and a Nordic waistcoat.
(20) Englishness became a parody of itself (and it was pretty parodical to start with); little more than a series of bowler-hatted funny walks.I couldn’t stand stout John Bull with his union jack waistcoat and pointing finger.