Smoking jacket
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A smoking jacket is an informal men's style of lounge jacket originally intended for tobacco smoking. Designed in the 1850s, a traditional smoking jacket has a shawl collar, turn-up cuffs, and is clos
A smoking jacket in burgundy with the typical shawl collar, frog fastening and turn-up cuffs. From the 1944 film Gaslight.
James FitzGerald (1818–1896) wearing a smoking jacket in 1868.
A smoking jacket from the 1860s exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States.
A silk smoking suit with shawl collar and gold facings from 1912.
False friend
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In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning. Examples of false friends include Eng
Smoking jacket
…The smoking jacket is named due to its association with tobacco smoking. As a false friend, the name carried on to its derivation the dinner jacket in several non-English languages. In Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian…
An example of a West Slavic shared etymology. In Czech and Slovak, čerstvé pečivo means 'fresh baked goods', in Polish, czerstwe pieczywo means 'stale bread', in Ukrainian, черстве печиво (čerstve pečyvo) means 'hardened cookie (bakery)', and in Russian, chyorstvy means "stale" again.