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? The ‘body’ of a coat. Scottish. Obsolete.
The part of a dress or other garment which covers the body, as distinct from the arms; (also) the part of a woman's dress above the waist, as…
Miscellaneous uses. See quots. 1802 at sense 16 1853 at sense 9b and cf. shell-jacket n. at compounds 7. Also North American, the unlined body of a…