English-French translations for jacket

• veste
  Je ne sais pas qui a peur des vestes rouges. I do not know who is afraid of red jackets.
  Votre veste en cuir a été dessinée par un styliste européen mais a été confectionnée en Turquie. Your leather jacket is by a European designer, but it was made in Turkey.
  La police a refusé de les laisser entrer, parce que les visiteurs portaient des vestes rouges. The police did not allow this, however, as the visitors were wearing red jackets.
• blouson
• couverture
• jaquette
• paletot

Definition of jacket

• A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length
• A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet
• In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired
• To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering

Examples

• Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Related words

• straitjacket
• bluejacket
• straightjacket
• leatherjacket
• bedjacket
• bookjacket
• lumberjacket
• dustjacket
• smoking-jacket