Definition of "waistcoats" []

• Plural form of waistcoat. (noun)

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• "As a child, his daughter is troubled by nightly dreams of grinning cats, caterpillars, rabbits in waistcoats, and short-tempered queens."
• "A visitor recalled that at one fete, "positioned at the fireplaces that flanked both ends of the massive room, servants in waistcoats and powdered wigs, continually tossed handfuls of copper filings onto the flames, transforming them into blazes of vivid green.""
• "I did like the witty renderings of hedgehogs in waistcoats and ducks sipping tea and rabbits losing their trousers, but the stories were, I felt, either excessively dull (Jeremy Fisher the frog is unsuccessful in catching the lunch that he has planned for his friends but it all ends well because they bring salad!) or excessively alarming (Squirrel Nutkin narrowly escapes being skinned by an owl!"