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WAISTCOAT

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Traducere în limba română

waistcoat substantiv

vestă, jiletcă;

strait waistcoat cămaşă de forţă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I bought a second-hand dumb-waiter for this dinner-party, in preference to re-engaging the handy young man; against whom I had conceived a prejudice, in consequence of meeting him in the Strand, one Sunday morning, in a waistcoat remarkably like one of mine, which had been missing since the former occasion.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mr. Dolloby—Dolloby was the name over the shop door, at least—took the waistcoat, stood his pipe on its head, against the door-post, went into the shop, followed by me, snuffed the two candles with his fingers, spread the waistcoat on the counter, and looked at it there, held it up against the light, and looked at it there, and ultimately said: What do you call a price, now, for this here little weskit?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“A strait-waistcoat,” said he.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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