Norfolk jacket

English thumb|Golfing costume consisting of a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers, 1901. Noun A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front. en 1864 Arthur Walker The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice Westminster J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture 309 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100619721 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. 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. en 1915 w:Emma Orczy w:A Bride of the Plains New York George H. Doran 19 174 https://archive.org/details/brideofplains00orcz she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately. He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket. Derived terms en Norfolk-jacketed Related terms en Norfolk suit en Clothing