double-breasted jacket

1. 1.

   a jacket having fronts that overlap enough for two separate rows of buttons

   Broaderjacket

   Part ofdouble-breasted suit

Questions about double-breasted jacket

What does double-breasted jacket mean?

double-breasted jacket means "a jacket having fronts that overlap enough for two separate rows of buttons".

Is double-breasted jacket a common word?

double-breasted jacket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.