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(of a garment) Fitted with a belt. quotations examples
Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
1952 April 7, “The Way Things Are”, in Time
She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing
Wearing a belt. quotations examples
How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listenedTo the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry)
(of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body. examples