spencer (eng anliegende, kurze jacke)

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spencer
A thin knitted woollen vest
A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards
A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early nineteenth century; probably named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834)
One who has the care of the spence, or buttery
English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
A short jacket worn by men and by women
A fore- and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]