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What (who) is double-breasted - definition

DESCRIBES A GARMENT FOR WHICH A WIDE SECTION IN THE FRONT OVERLAPS THE OTHER SIDE AND HAS TWO ROWS OF FASTENERS
Double-breasted suit; Double breasted; Double-breasted jacket
  • A double-breasted open-front tailcoat
  • A grey striped six-on-one double-breasted suit with jetted pockets, a style popular in the 1980s
  • Single- and double-breasted jackets

Double-breasted         
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
double-breasted         
A double-breasted jacket or suit has two very wide sections at the front of the jacket which fit over one another when you button them up.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
double-breasted         
¦ adjective (of a jacket or coat) having a large overlap at the front and two rows of buttons.

Wikipedia

Double-breasted

A double-breasted garment is a coat, jacket, waistcoat, or dress with wide, overlapping front flaps which has on its front two symmetrical columns of buttons; by contrast, a single-breasted item has a narrow overlap and only one column of buttons.

Examples of use of double-breasted
1. Charles, wearing a blue double–breasted blue suit, blue shirt and striped tie, attempted two shots.
2. Abramoff, dressed in a gray double–breasted suit, appeared somber and detached during the proceedings.
3. Rather than combat fatigues, Harry is dressed in a double–breasted suit.
4. And Robinson shed his silver–sequined jacket for a double–breasted suit and striped tie.
5. In others, surrounded by uniformed bodyguards, Hitler wears a fedora and a baggy double–breasted beige raincoat.