jacketed

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, 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,

     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.

   • 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:

     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:

     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