gilet
noun/ˈʒiːleɪ/
/ʒəˈleɪ/
- a light thick jacket without armsTopics Clothes and Fashionc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: French, ‘waistcoat’, from Spanish jileco, from Turkish yelek.
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