spencer

name

1. (countable)An English surname originating as an occupation.

   “Other groups have different messages: the National Policy Institute, fronted by Richard Spencer and designed to “elevate the consciousness of whites”; the Occidental Quarterly, run by CMS member Kevin MacDonald and presenting itself as a scholarly journal; American Third Position, later rebranded as the American Freedom Party, led by Johnson with “a platform that is predicated on the preservation of our traditional European roots.””

2. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.

   “Later, a 'person of interest' was said to be in custody in connection with Kirk's shooting, Utah governor Spencer Cox announced Wednesday evening.”

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noun

1. (historical)A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. (historical)A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.

   “In order to support and illustrate this assertion, I shall commence my remarks with the spencer, which has often been attacked by satyrical and cynical writers as an absurd and original dress.”

   “To have seen Miss Squeers now, divested of the brown beaver, the green veil, and the blue curl-papers, and arrayed in all the virgin splendor of a white frock and spencer, with a white mulsin bonnet, and an imitative damask rose in full bloom on the inside thereof;”

   “Some wear the tunic of lawn, and the spencer or Turkish robe of silk.”

3. (historical)A (usually woollen) vest worn by women and girls for extra warmth.

   “I am seized with an angry resentment against the conventions of twenty years ago, which wrapped up my comely adolescent body in woollen combinations, black cashmere stockings, “liberty” bodice, dark stockinette knickers, flannel petticoat and often, in addition, a long-sleeved, high-necked, knitted woollen “spencer”.”

4. A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards.