Other forms: blazers
A blazer is a smart jacket worn over a shirt, often part of a uniform. A school blazer, a navy blazer, blazer and tie.
It differs from a suit jacket in having no matching trousers, and the metal buttons are the traditional mark. The name comes from bright red jackets worn by a Cambridge rowing club — they blazed, and the word stuck to the garment.
1nounblazerA smart jacket worn over a shirt.
“He wore a navy blazer and grey trousers to the interview.”
blazer is a jacket.
From blaze, a bright flame. The name came from the bright red jackets of a Cambridge boat club in the nineteenth century.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰel- — to blaze, burn; to be bright, shine; bright flame, fire; shiny; white
Proto-Germanic
*blasǭ — a torch
Proto-West Germanic
*blasā — a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch
Old English
blæse
Middle English
blase — a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light
English, today
blazer
Built from
From blaze + -er. Blaze is derived from blaze (“fire”), from Middle English blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light”), from Old English blæse, blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (whence Old English blæsere, blasere (“one who burns, burner, incendiary”) literally “blazer”), from Proto-West Germanic blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”), from Proto-Germanic blasǭ (“a torch”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰel- (“to blaze, burn; to be bright, shine; bright flame, fire; shiny; white”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA