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gilet

See also: Gilet

English

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WOTD – 16 July 2022

Etymology

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A 19th-century Dutch embroidered silk gilet (sense 1.1) or waistcoat worn by a groom for a wedding.[n 1]
 
A 21st-century gilet (sense 2) worn by the rapper Excellent from the hip-hop group Tuigcommissie based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[n 1]
 
Members of the Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling team who won the Round 7 teams classification of the Matrix Fitness GP Series in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, U.K., on 23 May 2017. The cyclists are wearing gilets (sense 2).

Borrowed from French gilet (“vest, waistcoat”), from regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the French word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.[1] Doublet of jelick.

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Noun

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gilet (plural gilets)

  1. (historical)
    1. A waistcoat worn by a man.
    2. A bodice worn by a woman similar to a man's waistcoat; also, a decorative panel at the front of such a bodice, or worn separately.
  2. (by extension) A sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat but generally closed at the neck; specifically, one which is padded to provide warmth.
    Synonym: bodywarmer

Translations

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waistcoat worn by a man — see vest,‎ waistcoat

Notes

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 From the collection of the Museum Rotterdam in Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands.

References

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  1. ^ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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French

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Etymology

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From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.[1] Compare Greek γιλέκο (giléko), Spanish chaleco.

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Noun

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gilet m (plural gilets)

  1. waistcoat, vest
  2. sweater
    Synonyms: pull, tricot, chandail

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → English: gilet
  • → Franco-Provençal: g·ilèt
  • → Italian: gilè
  • → Russian: жиле́т (žilét)

References

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  1. ^ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Picard

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Noun

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gilet m

  1. sweater; jumper
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