a leather/denim/linen etc jacket• He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.• A good pair of jeans like Levi's - and a leather jacket.• Soon afterwards a figure in a leather jacketemerged.• At the very back was a man in a leather jacket.• The day's most successfulreport is the interview with a young boyaccused of stealing a leather jacket.• Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stolea leather jacket and a handbag from the hall.• Police arrested the allegedthief after catching him stuffinga leather jacket and a. 22 caliberrevolver under a parked car.• He was wearing a leather jacket with one sleeve torn off.
Originjacket
(1400-1500)Frenchjaquet, from jaque“short coat”, probably from jacque“poor farmer”, from the male name Jacques“James”