Norfolk jacket

plural Norfolk jackets

1. A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.

   He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.

   1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC

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   Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.

   1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, page 309

   Nearly all our clothing was made of a well-shrunk and very strong grey flannel, and excellent I found it for travelling in these places, because though a Norfolk jacket, shirt, and pair of trousers of it only weighed about four pounds, a great consideration in a tropical country, where every extra ounce tells on the wearer, it was warm, and offered a good resistance to the rays of the sun, and best of all to chills, which are so apt to result from sudden changes of temperature.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.

   1915, Emma Orczy, chapter 19, in A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, page 174