monkey jacket

Godfrey slipped on his monkey jacket and hailed back.

A monkey jacket is a waist length jacket tapering at the back to a point.

Historically monkey jackets were commonly worn by sailors.

Dude, just what IS a monkey jacket?

After thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking.

The waiters wore cruise-ship monkey jackets.

He wore sea-boots and a thick, dirty white sweater that rolled heavily around his neck beneath a very old monkey jacket stained with salt.

We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.

I said, "I doubt if they are as uncomfortable as this monkey jacket I am wearing, Sire."

Their jackets were naval monkey jackets, or cavalry tunics, or cross-over leather flying coats, but every one of them wore the embroidered RFC wings on his breast.

Jackets or coats that were cut to a shorter length to allow freedom of movement in the rigging were called monkey jackets, which were worn by the rigging monkey.

The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.

Around your waist a worn and negligently polished pistol belt, and below it only a hand's breadth of goods, for the tanker's jacket was very short, which is why it was sometimes called a monkey jacket.

It was given him- neither twine nor lanyard were seen again; but the next night an iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled from the pocket of the Lakeman's monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock for a pillow.

Then she knelt beside her chest and wormed her way down to the bottom layers, from which she retrieved a pair of man's moleskin breeches, a flannel shirt and cravat, with a high-buttoned monkey jacket to go over them, and well-worn half boots.

Several reports describe her as looking like a young man wearing knee-length, Wellington boots, moleskin trousers, a Crimean shirt, a monkey jacket and a cabbage tree hat, the dress of the flash stockmen of the day (and at a time when women did not wear men's clothing).