gilet

A 19th-century Dutch embroidered silk gilet (sense 1.1) or waistcoat worn by a groom for a wedding.^{[n 1]}

A 21st-century gilet (sense 2) worn by the rapper Excellent from the hip-hop group Tuigcommissie based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.^{[n 1]}

Members of the Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling team who won the Round 7 teams classification of the Matrix Fitness GP Series in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, U.K., on 23 May 2017. The cyclists are wearing gilets (sense 2).

Borrowed from French gilet (“vest, waistcoat”), from regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the French word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.^[1] Doublet of jelick.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʒiːleɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɪleɪ/, /ʒɪˈleɪ/
• Rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -eɪ
• Hyphenation: gi‧let

gilet (plural gilets)

1. (historical)
   1. A waistcoat worn by a man.
   2. A bodice worn by a woman similar to a man's waistcoat; also, a decorative panel at the front of such a bodice, or worn separately.
2. (by extension) A sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat but generally closed at the neck; specifically, one which is padded to provide warmth.

   Synonym: bodywarmer

• gilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gilet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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Borrowed from French gilet.

• IPA^(key): /ʒiˈlɛt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gi‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛt

gilet n (plural gilets, diminutive giletje n)

1. waistcoat, vest

From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic.^[1] Compare Greek γιλέκο (giléko), Spanish chaleco.

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.lɛ/

• Audio:

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gilet m (plural gilets)

1. waistcoat, vest
2. sweater

   Synonyms: pull, tricot, chandail

• gilet de sauvetage
• gilet jaune
• gilet pare-balle/gilet pare-balles

• → Dutch: gilet
• → English: gilet
• → Franco-Provençal: g·ilèt
• → Italian: gilè
• → Russian: жиле́т (žilét)

• “gilet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

gilet m

1. sweater; jumper