Winter wear

Usage examples of overcoat.

And then Avrillia insisted on buying all sorts of things for the dolls at home--gorgeous oriental costumes for the Japanese doll, sailor-suits for the Billiken, and a handsome fur overcoat, of a conservative style and cut, for the Brown Teddy-Bear.

He never seemed to change, was always the big boisterous fellow in bright brown clothes and even brighter boots, with a brown billycock and a check overcoat, thick red hair that never went grey and eyebrows to match.

She was wearing zip-up furry bootees, three cardigans, an overcoat, a new woolly scarf Genevieve had bought her, and her best hat.

He clutched the two sides of the tent flap beneath his chin, like a buttonless overcoat.

Before the Saint Gaudens statue Soames Forsyte sat on his overcoat, with the marble screen to his back, enjoying the seclusion and a streak of sunlight passaging between the cypresses.

He twisted round in his chair and watched Martyn as she made a fruitless search of his overcoat pockets.

They had kept to their own quarters until, a few minutes before the departure for the Metronome, Spence and William had gone into the hall, assisted the gentlemen into their overcoats, given them their hats and gloves and seen them into their cars.

A pause, and Harvey appeared rebuttoning his overcoat and honking into his handkerchief.

As the bitter wind continued to blow down the street, Riggs pulled up the collar of his overcoat, took a knit cap emblazoned with the Washington Redskins logo from his pocket, and pulled it tightly over his head so that only the lower part of his reddening face was visible.

The overcoat, purchased by Lydia after a vast amount of comparing and selecting, of deciding and rejecting and redeciding, was carefully hidden, to be produced at a suitable moment.

Madigan made his way towards him and Scrimshaw gathered the skirt of his old tweed overcoat and moved aside to make room.

The audience all paid close attention as an unidentifiable gentleman, predominantly dressed in black overcoat and wearing a wide brimmed hat, stepped forward from the cross passage to the other platform nearest Sharman and walked purposefully towards him.

She tucked the thick piece of cloth in the basket around Silvester and buttoned the top button of her overcoat.

The blue and cream tiled walls, still shiny following a recent refurbishment, reflected the light afforded by the neon tubes mounted above from the ceiling as a lone passenger dressed in a long overcoat and carrying a brown leather briefcase walked slowly down the length of the southbound platform towards the far end where the dark tunnel portal contrasted with the bright surfaces around it.

The men wore curly-brimmed top hats, fur-collared overcoats and glossy patent-leather shoes, with spatterdashes over them to preserve their gloss.