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▪ I. Jaeger1|ˈjeɪgə(r)|
The proprietary name of an all-wool clothing material manufactured originally by Dr. [Gustav] Jaeger's Sanitary Woollen System Co. Ltd.; also, a garment made of this material. Also attrib. and fig.
1887G. B. Shaw Let. 8 Feb. (1965) 163 Seeing me arrive, clad in an irresistible new Jaeger samite. 1893K. A. Sanborn Truthful Woman in S. California 121, I really suffered during a drive, although encased in the heaviest of Jaeger flannels. 1905Chesterton Heretics x. 140 Those who talk to us with interfering eloquence about Jaeger and the pores of the skin. 1925Trade Marks Jrnl. 7 Oct. 2200 Jaeger... Cloths and stuffs of wool, worsted or hair. The Jaeger Company, Limited,..London,..merchants. 1932Thorne Smith Bishop's Jaegers (1934) 2 If they could not be called things of beauty, these brave long jaegers of the Bishop's, they did..represent the highest expression of the drawers-maker's craftsmanship. 1936R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. i. 12 A grubby jaeger shroud lay over the first suburbs. 1942N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air vii. 127 The inspector was wearing a roll-necked Jaegar [sic] pull-over. 1973A. Morice Death & Dutiful Daughter v. 53 Betsy's old Jaeger dressing-gown.
▪ II. Jaeger2|ˈjeɪgə(r)|
The name of E. R. Jaeger von Jastthal (1818–1884), Austrian ophthalmologist, used in the possessive (or occas. attrib.) to designate a series of short passages printed in type-faces of different sizes and used for testing visual acuity at reading distances.
1869Trans. Amer. Ophthalm. Soc., 4th and 5th Ann. Meeting 68 In Jaeger's Schrift-Scalen the numbering is altogether arbitrary and irregular. 1884G. Hartridge Refraction Eye iii. 45 Snellen and Jaeger's are the types most commonly in use. 1897Norris & Oliver Syst. Dis. Eye II 28 Jaeger's Schriftscalen consisted of a very complete set of reading tests printed in several languages. 1907J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye ix. 161 Jaeger's near test types..are simply the ordinary printers' founts of type, from the smallest upwards (nonpareil, minion, etc.). 1962H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) viii. 224 Another series of test types has been selected by the British Faculty of Ophthalmologists and either this or the Jaeger series is readily obtainable. |