nehru jacket

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Definition of nehru jacket in English English dictionary

A hip-length tailored unisex coat with a mandarin collar, modelled on the South Asian achkan or sherwani and briefly popular in the West in the 1960s and 1970s

Related Terms

Nehru jackets

plural form of Nehru jacket

Hyphenation

Neh·ru jack·et

Turkish pronunciation

neyru cäkıt

Pronunciation

/ˈnāˌro͞o ˈʤakət/ /ˈneɪˌruː ˈʤækət/

Etymology

() After Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, who wore such a jacket.