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‖ justaucorps|ˈʒystokɔr|
Also 7 justacorps. -acor, -icore, -icord, -ico, 9 justiecor; justi-, justycoat: see also chesticore and jeistiecor.
[F., f. juste close-fitting + au corps to the body. The anglicized forms justicore, etc. now survive only as archaisms.]
A close-fitting garment: spec. a. A body-coat reaching to the knees, worn in the latter half of the 17th and part of the 18th cent.b. An outer garment worn by women in the latter part of the 17th c. c. Sc. A jacket or waistcoat with sleeves.
1656Blount Glossogr. To Rdr., In London many of the Tradesmen have new Dialects..The Taylor is ready to mode you into a..Justacor, Capouch [etc.]. 1667Pepys Diary 26 Apr., With her velvet-cap..and a black just-au-corps. 1672Acc.-Bk. Sir J. Foulis Mar. (1894) 4 For silk and threid..to make my justicord. 1678Dryden Limberham iv. i, Give her out the flower'd Justacorps, with the Petticoat belong to't. 1705Elstob in Hearne Collect. 30 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 107 His justaucorps brac't to his body tight. a1825MS. Poems (Jam.), The justicoat syne on he flung. 1854Mrs. Oliphant Magd. Hepburn I. 154 I'll buy him a bonnie justiecor. 1887Diary W. Cunningham Introd. 28 He had also a Justycoat, or tightly-fitting body coat. 1896Westm. Gaz. 28 July 1/3 The scene..is laid in the Pyrenees..the women look gorgeous in red justaucorps. |