{"id":6147,"date":"2011-10-28T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2011-10-28T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T12:00:12","slug":"gilets-et-camisoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6147","title":{"rendered":"Gilets et camisoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night at the French Conversation Group we were discussing various words for clothing in French. One word the seems to cover quite a few different types of clothing is gilet<\/strong> \/\u0292i.l\u025b\/, which on its own means a sleeveless jacket similar to a waistcoat (vest in American English), and apparently comes from the Maghrebi Arabic word jalikah<\/em> (a type of jacket worn by Christian slaves in galleys) which comes from the Turkish word yelek<\/em> (sleeveless jacket; wing feather) [from: Wikitionnaire<\/a>, Wikitionary<\/a> and turkishdictionary.net<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Gilet<\/strong> also appears in:
\n– gilet pareballes = bulletproof jacket\/vest; flak jacket (AmEng)
\n– gilet de sauvetage = life jacket (BrEng) \/ life preserver \/ Mae West (AmEng)
\n– gilet de peau \/ gilet de corps = vest (BrEng), undershirt (AmEng)
\n– gilet matelass\u00e9 = body warmer
\n– aller pleurer dans le gilet de qqn = to cry on someone’s shoulder<\/p>\n

Gilet \/\u0292ile\/ is also used in English to mean “a bodice shaped like, or in imitation of, a man’s waistcoat” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

In British English the word vest usually refers to a garment, usually sleeveless, worn under one’s shirt, or undershirt in American English. While in American English a vest is a sleeveless piece of clothing with buttons down the front worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket, or waistcoat in British English. So in British English a three-piece suit consists of a jacket, waistcoat and trousers, while in American English these garments are a jacket, vest and pants. I’m sure there are regional variations in these names, as well as in the types of garments they refer to. <\/p>\n

Another word that came up was camisole<\/strong> \/ka.mi.z\u0254l\/, which in French means “une sorte de v\u00eatement du matin, court, \u00e0 manches, qui se porte sur la chemise<\/em>” (a type of morning clothing, short, with sleeves, that is worn on the shirt), and comes from the Provencal word camisola<\/em>, which comes from the Italian camisciola<\/em>, a diminutive of camisa<\/em> (shirt) [from: Wikitionnaire<\/a>].<\/p>\n

In English camisole \/\u02c8k\u00e6m\u026as\u0259\u028al\/ can refer to:
\n– a type of jacket or jersey with sleeves;
\n– a loose jacket worn by women when dressed in neglig\u00e9e<\/em>*;
\n– an underbodice, often embroidered and trimmed with lace;
\n– a strait-jacket**
\n[source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

* ‘in neglig\u00e9e<\/em>‘ = dressed in informal or unceremonious attire. In French n\u00e9glig\u00e9<\/em> (adj) means ‘slovenly, scruffy, untidy, unkempt, slipshod, frowzy, floppy’; and en tenue n\u00e9glig\u00e9e<\/em> means ‘in casual clothing’ [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

** strait-jacket = camisole de force<\/em> in French. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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