veste French · revision 16868

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1578, Négociations du Levant|origins=la vestis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /vɛst/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''veste''' ''f'' (plural vestes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|veste|t=garment, clothing]] (before 1484, Pulci; first “vesta” in Dante), from [[la|vestis|t=clothing, garment]], through its accusative [[m|la|vestem]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|14, 356b) Rey notes that the Latin word probably meant at first “a way of dressing”, and also meant “carpet”, “woman's veil” and, figuratively, “a snake's slough”; it rests on a root also seen in [[m|la|exuō|t=to strip]] and [[m|la|induō|t=to put on]].^(DHLF 1992) The verb [[vêtir]] continues the same family.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in 1578, in a list of gifts made by the ambassador of Venice, for a garment with four panels reaching to the knees, worn under the coat.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1670–1671 it named the long garment that Orientals wore under their robe (''vestes à la persane''), and in 1793 the cloth coat of various armies.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) From 1778 (Beaumarchais) it was a short outer garment with sleeves, stopping at the hips, worn by footmen in summer and by some trades, as the ''cuisiniers en veste blanche'' of Mercier (1783).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The ''veste nouvelle'' of 1820 generalized it as the short jacket worn with trousers.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In Quebec ''veste'' or ''petite veste'' means a waistcoat.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ''Remporter'' or ''ramasser une veste'' “to suffer a defeat” (1866, Delvau), first said of elections, may be a pun on [[capot]] “beaten at cards”;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) ''retourner sa veste'' “to change sides” dates from 1870.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The derivative [[veston]] is recorded in 1757 in Quebec, then in 1769.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1578 – A knee-length garment worn under the coat.^(TLFi)

+ * 1671 – ''Vestes à la persane'', in Bouhours.^(TLFi)

+ * 1778 – A footman's short jacket, in Beaumarchais.^(TLFi)

+ * 1820 – The ''veste nouvelle'', a jacket worn with trousers.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1866 – ''Remporter une veste'' “to fail”, in Delvau.^(TLFi)

+ * 1870 – ''Retourner sa veste''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|jacket]], a short garment with sleeves, open at the front: ''veste de costume'', ''veste de tailleur''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(historical)'' A long garment worn under the coat.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(familiar)'' ''Remporter une veste'': to suffer a defeat, a [[m|en|failure]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Retourner sa veste'': to change sides, become a [[m|en|turncoat]].^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(Quebec)'' A [[m|en|waistcoat]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[veston]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vêtir]]

+ * [[vêtement]]

+ * [[la|vestis]]

+ * [[en|vest]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}