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Definition of gilet noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gilet

noun

/ˈʒiːleɪ/

/ʒəˈleɪ/

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a light thick jacket without armsTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
Word Originlate 19th cent.: French, ‘waistcoat’, from Spanish jileco, from Turkish yelek.

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