A short jacket or tunic, particularly one worn in Spain or Spanish-speaking regions.
From Spanish chaqueta, which may derive from English 'jacket' or from Arabic sources during the Moorish period in Spain. The word entered English through Spanish colonial influence.
The Spanish chaqueta is the ancestor of the English 'jacket' through linguistic back-and-forth during the age of exploration—words about clothing traveled as quickly as trade goods did.
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