Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word weskits.

Examples

  • He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The mathematical and theoretical side of the combine, fair and dark, looked sober and professional; Jason and Jeremy, in their stickpins and fancy weskits, seemed bright and a little dudish standing next to them in the flickering atmosphere of gaslight and crystal.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • The mathematical and theoretical side of the combine, fair and dark, looked sober and professional; Jason and Jeremy, in their stickpins and fancy weskits, seemed bright and a little dudish standing next to them in the flickering atmosphere of gaslight and crystal.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • I go through the litany, and Alis appears on the screens, one after the other, in tap pants and bustles and green weskits, ponytails and red curls and shingled bobs.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • "Sir," said he in a muffled tone, "d 'ye see them two coves in the red weskits?" and he pointed to the two Bow Street Runners who lounged in the shadow of an adjacent wall, talking together in rumbling tones and puffing at their pipes.

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • As for weskits, see 'ere, son, climbin' roses worked into true-lover's knots and all pure silk!

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And only yesterday your askin 'to be put into weskits on the ground of your age!

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • I s'pose he had crowns an 'rings an' purple velvet coats an 'brocade satin weskits, an' all manner o 'things.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.