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  • adjective Wearing a waistcoat

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waistcoat +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd, surveying his paunch, which lolled comfortably, and as it were by itself, in front of him, like a kind of waistcoated air-balloon.

    Ziska Marie Corelli 1889

  • It's a giddy moment when you see the waistcoated ones crooning their way through Wiley's "Wearing my Rolex".

    Posh; The Empire; Hair 2010

  • We gathered our glasses into a row, and Jay looked furtively about the dimly lit room, watching for the waistcoated cocktail waitress who would be our undoing.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • We gathered our glasses into a row, and Jay looked furtively about the dimly lit room, watching for the waistcoated cocktail waitress who would be our undoing.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Despite its size, service from the waistcoated staff is quick and attentive.

    Review: Cafe de Paris, Monaco 18 October 2008 Dungeekin 2008

  • We gathered our glasses into a row, and Jay looked furtively about the dimly lit room, watching for the waistcoated cocktail waitress who would be our undoing.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • In fact, getting a sharp word against you from Fry would be rather like a flamboyantly-waistcoated, bespectacled and gently avuncular Beatrix Potter bear abruptly giving you the finger.

    SLACKERJACK – American History Lux 2010

  • Despite its size, service from the waistcoated staff is quick and attentive.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Dungeekin 2008

  • A red-waistcoated barman wiped industriously at a glass.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • The picture of Osborne with Nathaniel Rothschild and friends is agony: look at the arrogance, the ghastly smug waistcoated born-to-rule insouciance of the lot of them.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Deft 2008

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