laced-jacketed

Updated: May 5, 2025

James's assemblies, or we, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers some ladies of fashion, I say, we may have seen, about two o'clock of the forenoon of a levee day, as the laced-jacketed band of the Life Guards are blowing triumphal marches seated on those prancing music-stools, their cream-coloured chargers who are by no means lovely and enticing objects at that early period of noon.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair