monkey-jacket

The kaross is now laid aside, and the young men of fashion wear a monkey-jacket and a skin round the hips; but no trousers, waistcoat, or shirt.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

He was unattractive-looking -- small, dark, and dirty; wore a red fez, a short black monkey-jacket, and immense, full, white cotton drawers.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

I got a fur collar put on my monkey-jacket, which cost 7 dollars; it's a good deal, but I may be able to do without a fur cap, as the collar when turned up comes nearly up to the top of my head; it's just about six inches deep of beaver skin, which, being a light brown, looks simply swagger on my dark brown coat.

Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

"Steward," (as that functionary passed us,) "put a handful of cigars in my monkey-jacket pocket, and have a cup of coffee ready for me about twelve."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Before Captain Harding had been taken below he had removed his uniform cap and monkey-jacket, and put them on himself, so that he might pass for one of the ship's officers, and he had likewise directed the majority of his men to lie down on the deck, lest their numbers might create suspicion.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

Do the midnight revellers in the sea-caverns call out in broad Scuppaug to the attendant mermaid for a "half-dozen large-sized jolterheads on the half monkey-jacket?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

I have blued ten dols. already in winter preparations -- seven in a collar for my monkey-jacket, with a view to protecting my gullet against the old attacks; and three in having my ulster lined round the back and chest with chamois leather, for I found in the late spell of cold weather, which however was a mere nothing, that it let the wind through pretty quick.

Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

Captain Harding, with a gesture at the borrowed monkey-jacket which the other still wore.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

You needn't accept the Invitation if you didn't want to; there was no necessity to put on your best monkey-jacket if you did.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

The Indiarubber Man, in no wise irritated at the general lack of interest in his conversation, wriggled lower in his arm-chair till he appeared to be resting on the flat of his shoulder-blades, with his chin buried in the lappels of his monkey-jacket.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926