Noun: vest
Sample Sentences
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The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death? [2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162:]
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In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require. [1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite:]
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Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn. [1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)]
Nouns inflected like vest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived from French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir. See: French Nouns '
veste', Latin Nouns '
vestis', English Nouns '
wear'.
Verbs referencing "vest"
English Nouns
wear, Irish Nouns
veist.