The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluecoat \Blue"coat`\, n. One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) A traditional dress code at certain prestigious British schools 2 (context US history English) A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American (w: Civil War)
Wikipedia
The bluecoat is a style of dress code, traditionally worn in Bluecoat schools ( British private schools deriving from charity schools).
The main element of the bluecoat is a long (dark blue or black) coat, belted at the waist, with white neck decoration. Underneath a white shirt and grey shorts are worn, with knee-length socks and smart shoes.
Bluecoat is a style of school uniform used in some British schools.
Bluecoat or Blue Coat may also refer to:
Usage examples of "bluecoat".
South of them, in the forts along the rivers, bluecoat soldiers were training.
There are bluecoat soldiers in all the forts but we do not want to fight them yet.
The bluecoat soldiers would come, in time, to the llano but it would not be soon.
He was a warrior now--he had killed a bluecoat--and yet his father treated him like a horse herder.
The bluecoat soldiers would be coming onto the llano to fight them soon, in a year or two.
The bluecoat soldiers would return to the empty forts stretching westward along the rivers.
Many bluecoats would come, and this time they would come onto the llano and press the fight until there were no more free Comanches left to kill.
Having so many horses together made it easier for the bluecoat soldiers to find them.
Already the bluecoat soldiers had come back to Texas and begun to fill up the old forts, places they had abandoned while they fought one another.
Even if all the free tribes banded together there would not be enough warriors to defeat the bluecoat soldiers.
So far the bluecoat soldiers lacked the skills that would enable them to attack the Antelopes.
Buffalo Hump had taken the knife off the body of a bluecoat soldier near the Rio Concho many years before.
The bluecoats in the lead fired at the Confederates who were slaughtering them.
The bluecoats came to a ragged halt when they saw what had happened to the first attacking party, but then moved ahead all the same.
A deep column of bluecoats, their bayonets fixed, stormed up the Brock Road at the double-quick.