justicoat

plural justicoats

1. alternativeAlternative form of justacorps.

   I asked him for the justicoat which you had given me when I came down here and I had left with him to take care of, as with the best of my friends.

   1904, Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan Historical Collections - Volume 33, page 320

   2 more examples

   Ordered that what pairt of that pirne is putt either in coat justicoat or breeches be taken back and sent to David Maxwell and placed to his accompt or to allow half dollar for the said pirne and charged to said David Maxwell's accompt.

   1905, William Robert Scott, The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, page 300

   He neither hid it up in the folds of his justicoat nor sewed it up in his rags, but safely stowed it away in his pack, in the crown of one of the bonnets, as the least likely place for a careful man to have trusted to.

   1905, Hugh Gilzean Reid, Old Oscar and other sketches, page 26