jacketed

• jacketted

jacketed (not comparable)

1. Dressed in a jacket.
   • 1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm”, in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great‎^[1], Dublin: Arthur Grueber, page iv:

     For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,
     Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,

   • 1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895,^[2]

     From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.

   • 1962, Edmund Schiddel, chapter 15, in Scandal’s Child: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 211:

     In the hallways and entryrooms, the exits and entrances, the overflow jostled each other for position, sweatered girls jumping excitedly trying to see over the people in front of them, jacketed boys standing on tiptoe.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:

     The residence of the British Council representative was in a quieter and perhaps more patrician part of Lija than my own. Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]

2. Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
   • 1861, Annual Reports, United States War Dept:

     One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...

   • 1920, Edward J. Martin, The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification‎^[3]:

     The metal can completely jacketed must have iron, steel or wooden jacket completely covering the can, except the mouth.

   • 1936, George Orwell, chapter 10, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying‎^[4]:

     Much of the time, when no customers came, he spent reading the yellow-jacketed trash that the library contained. Books of that type you could read at the rate of one an hour.

• bejacketed

jacketed

1. simple past and past participle of jacket