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English
Etymology
From be- + waistcoat + -ed.
Adjective
bewaistcoated (not comparable)
- Synonym of waistcoated
1882, Lizzie Alldridge, ““Oh past that is!””, in The Tower Gardens, volume I, London: F. V. White & Co., , page 67:The court itself, with its broad pavement and two lines of large houses, is not without a certain dignity. A very small amount of imagination could easily fill it with grave, bewigged and bewaistcoated merchants; ladies with powdered heads, patches and flowered damask gowns; sedan-chairs, link-boys, and all that goes with the date on the oblong tablet, set in relief on a square stone on one of the walls, where one may read, in characters such as one sees in a Tonson edition of The Spectator— […]
1938, The Modern Tramway: The Official Organ of the Light Railway Transport League, page 217, column 1:No longer are visions of brisk streetcar executives conjured up, but the bewhiskered, bewaistcoated Councillor, full of proper civic pride at the ordered tidiness of his Corporation Tramways with their scroll-festooned standards, ruby half lights, polished mahogany and very substantial depot architecture.
2001, Michael Fishwick, Smashing People, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 47:To my left, a voice was rumbling querulously, emanating from a grizzled and bewaistcoated, badger-like figure.