matinée jacket

plural matinée jackets · alternative matinee jacket

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKA short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.

   She gestured to her knitting. "I'm just running her up a little matinée jacket." .

   2010, Madeleine Wickham, Cocktails For Three, →ISBN

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   “I just can't see you with wool and needles,” she said in amusement one day on the phone when Kerry told her she was halfway through a tiny white matinée jacket.

   2007, Cathy Kelly, Best of Friends, →ISBN, page 440

   It was meant to be a matinée jacket but it bore a far stronger resemblance to a string vest, so many and various were the holes where the inexpert knitter had dropped stitches.

   2012, Judith Saxton, Nobody's Children, →ISBN