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/vɛst/ · noun
(Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat..
The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
With ether vested, and a purple sky.
to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.
Use vest when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vest means (Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat..
Common synonyms include waistcoat, singlet, tank top, undershirt.
Possible antonyms include divest.
The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
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