blazer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a smart jacket resembling a suit jacket but not worn with matching trousers

   He wore a navy blazer with grey trousers to the reception.

From blaze + -er. The jacket sense is traditionally linked to the bright scarlet rowing jackets of the Lady Margaret Boat Club at Cambridge in the nineteenth century; their blazing color gave the garment its name.

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