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mess jacket

a man's short, closefitting jacket worn for semiformal dress, as by the military, or as part of the uniform of waiters, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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