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- adjective Wearing a
waistcoat
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Examples
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"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
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It's a giddy moment when you see the waistcoated ones crooning their way through Wiley's "Wearing my Rolex".
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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
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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
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Despite its size, service from the waistcoated staff is quick and attentive.
Review: Cafe de Paris, Monaco 18 October 2008 Dungeekin 2008
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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
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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.
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Despite its size, service from the waistcoated staff is quick and attentive.
Archive 2008-10-01 Dungeekin 2008
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A red-waistcoated barman wiped industriously at a glass.
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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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