matinée jacket

See also: matinee jacket

English

Knit matinée jacket with garter-stitch yoke and three-button closure

Alternative forms

• matinee jacket

Noun

matinée jacket (plural matinée jackets)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A short coat for a baby, similar to a cardigan.
   • 2007, Cathy Kelly, Best of Friends, →ISBN, page 440:

     “I just can't see you with wool and needles,” she said in amusement one day on the phone when Kerry told her she was halfway through a tiny white matinée jacket.

   • 2010, Madeleine Wickham, Cocktails For Three, →ISBN:

     She gestured to her knitting. "I'm just running her up a little matinée jacket." .

   • 2012, Judith Saxton, Nobody's Children, →ISBN:

     It was meant to be a matinée jacket but it bore a far stronger resemblance to a string vest, so many and various were the holes where the inexpert knitter had dropped stitches.