Waistcoat in example sentence

Then one of the gentlemen opened his frock coat and from a sheath hanging on a belt stretched across his waistcoat he withdrew a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife which he held up in the light to test its sharpness.

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Mr Tilney appears dressed only in his waistcoat.

My only gripe is - why didn't they give Kester a green waistcoat 'which made him such a personable man'?

Levin meanwhile, in trousers but without coat or waistcoat, was pacing up and down his room, perpetually putting his head out at the door and glancing up the corridor.

It will all "shape itself'!'The fact of the matter was that when Levin told his old servant Kuzma to get his things ready, Kuzma had duly brought his dress coat, waistcoat and what else he considered necessary.

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