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Sailor with extremely elegant coat (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jacket

'coat' is the definition.
(jacket is a kind of coat)

'sailor with extremely elegant' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'jack' (I've seen this before**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'extremely' suggests removing the centre.
'elegant' with its centre taken out is 'et'.
'jack'+'et'='JACKET'

(Other definitions for jacket that I've seen before include "in which King Edward got very hot" , "Record sleeve" , "Book cover" , "Short coat or outer skin" , "Blazer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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