shell jacket

shell jacket

n. See mess jacket.

shell jacket

n (Clothing & Fashion) an army officer's waist-length mess jacket

shell′ jack`et

n. a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo. [1830–40]

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shell jacket - waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinnersmess jacket, monkey jacketjacket - a short coat