single-breasted jacket

1. 1.

   a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons

   Broaderjacket

   Part ofsingle-breasted suit

Questions about single-breasted jacket

What does single-breasted jacket mean?

single-breasted jacket means "a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons".

Is single-breasted jacket a common word?

single-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.