swagger-
the verb swagger used in comb.; swagger-bag; swagger-cane, -stick, an officer's cane or stick; the short cane or stick carried by soldiers when walking out; so swagger-dress; swagger coat, a three-quarter-length ladies' coat cut with a loose flare from the shoulders (particularly fashionable in the 1930s).
| 1887 Times 11 Apr. 11/5 Their clothes fit them well; they generally carry themselves well; many have swagger-sticks. 1889 Junior Army & Navy Stores Price List 669 H, Swagger or Parade Canes. 1890 Kipling Soldiers Three (1891) 24 An' then I meks him [sc. a dog] joomp ovver my swagger-cane. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 4/1 The ‘swagger’, or walking-out, dress of the soldier. 1933 Bulletin (Glasgow) 14 Oct. 15/1 A swagger-coat with collarette and gauntlets of black astrakhan. 1938 ‘J. Bell’ Port of London Murders ii. 24 Her hands were pushed into the pockets of an old swagger coat. 1953 ‘P. Wentworth’ Watersplash ii. 8 The glove and its fellow had been thrust into the pocket of a blue swagger coat. 1974 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 23 Apr. 3/2 (Advt.), Special selection of baskets, swagger bags, totes, envelopes. 1980 B. Bainbridge Winter Garden x. 74 She stood in the gutter in her swagger coat and allowed her teeth to chatter piteously. |