vest

• In the street he always wore the well-known clerical hat; a black dress coat buttoned over a double-breasted vest, a white neckerchief, black small clothes and well polished Hessian boots completed his attire. —  William Black The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
• He left the vest beside the coat and went out to his hunting Bloom-of-Youth did nothing to the coat and nothing to the vest, and every day for a week her husband went out without coat or vest upon him One day he put on his torn coat and his torn vest and went out to his hunting. —  The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said
• His vest was the same he wore when at work; but by pinning the collar over so as to make it present more of the passably clean shirt, he changed its entire appearance. —  Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy
• The coat, pants, and vest were a neat gray, and proved to be an excellent fit. —  The Telegraph Boy
• Avoid what is called the "ruffianly style of dress" or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbottoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

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