Where does “shooting-jacket” come from?

shooting-jacket (English) comes from English jacket, from Middle French jacquet, from Old French jaque, from Arabic شَكّ — doubt, suspicion.

shooting-jacket (English): A short kind of coat, intended to be worn when going hunting for sport with a gun

Definitions

  1. A short kind of coat, intended to be worn when going hunting for sport with a gun

Ancestry of “shooting-jacket”, step by step

shooting-jacket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English jacket

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishjacketA piece of clothing worn on the upper body...
2Middle Frenchjacquet—
3Old Frenchjaquea gambison; a type of tight-fitting shirt
4Arabicشَكّdoubt, suspicion

via English shooting

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishshootingpresent participle of shoot; An instance of...
2Middle Englishshoting—
3Old Englishscotungshooting
4Proto-Germanicskutungō—
Every word from Arabic شَكّ →
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