shell jacket
noun
a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
Origin of shell jacket
First recorded in 1830–40
Words nearby shell jacket
shell back,
shell bean,
shell company,
shell game,
shell gland,
shell jacket,
shell out,
shell pink,
shell program,
shell shock,
shell star
Example sentences from the Web for shell jacket
His shell-jacket was as much too little for him as he was too big for the premises.
The Personal History of David Copperfield |Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for shell jacket
shell jacket
noun
an army officer's waist-length mess jacket