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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the company name of Dr Gustav Jaeger's Sanitary Woollen Systems Co. Ltd.
Noun
Jaeger (plural Jaegers)
- The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 110:'I have a good comfortable dressing-gown of Jaeger material.'
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:His nether half was clad in lightweight Jaeger combinations which stretched to the ankle and through the fly-slit of which depended the royal member with its innocent pink tip.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Jaeger
- Alternative form of Jäger: (informal) Jägermeister