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Answer for the clue "Loose, heavy overcoat ", 6 letters:
ulster

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Word definitions for ulster in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
northernmost of the four provinces of Ireland, 14c., from Anglo-French Ulvestre (early 13c.), Anglo-Latin Ulvestera (c.1200), corresponding to Old Norse Ulfastir , probably from Irish Ulaidh "men of Ulster" + suffix also found in Leinster , Munster , and ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 177749 Housing Units (2000): 77656 Land area (2000): 1126.477233 sq. miles (2917.562516 sq. km) Water area (2000): 34.283190 sq. miles (88.793051 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1160.760423 sq. miles (3006.355567 sq. km) Located within: New ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ulster \Ul"ster\, n. A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.

Usage examples of ulster.

Frasconis as a courier to Ulster went over to the Barbera side of things.

Ireland, was born at Faughart in county Louth, her father being a prince of Ulster.

Thurgood Pilling, the Norroy and Ulster King of Arms at the College of Arms.

He had seen her returning in her little pony-carriage from the window of his dressing-room, wrapped in a kind of nunlike ulster with large sleeves, and he had also noticed that she wore a small crucifix at her waist, and that, in addition to the frills and ribands with which she always seemed to be encumbered, there was a jasper rosary round her neck on the Friday of her arrival.

Ernest, bishop of Osnabruck, was created duke of York and Albany, and earl of Ulster.

Ireland as part of the Elizabethan and Jacobean clearances of the native Irish population of Ulster and the Crom-wellian and Williamite settlements of the rest of the island.

Ulster Scarlett brownstone on Fifty-fourth Street was being repainted and sandblasted.

They hear voices ahead, then are suddenly zooming out of Invisibility, in among the Axmen, who, believing them pitiless crazy predators in this place lonely as any in Ulster or the Rhineland, scatter for their Lives back into the Trees.

Years earlier, one of the scientists based at Aldermaston had given a lecture to a group of intelligence officers in Ulster on the kinds of metals the IRA bombmakers favored for their devices.

McQueen, sitting in his dingy Bangor oce running a hoe-and-comer business as a demoition contractor with assets consisting of a battered truck and a ton of second-hand sedgehammers, considered himself a self-made man and heartily ap proved of the Ulster Protestant work ethic.

Added to this, on the illegal side of things, he was not only a member of the IRA, but very much on the active list, having only been released from Long Kesh prison in Ulster in February after serving three years' imprisonment for possession of illegal weapons.

So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel.

And the wind carried her over the roof of a house where the men of Ulster sat at their ale, so that she fell through the roof into a cup of gold that stood near the wife of Etar the Warrior, whose dwelling-place was near to the Bay of Cichmany in the province that was ruled over by Conor.

According to the Encyclopædia, the Third was often known as the Junkyard Dogs or, simply, the Mongrels, because it tended to draw its members from the White Diaspora: Uitlanders, Ulster Loyalists, whites from Hong Kong, and rootless sorts from all of the Anglo-American parts of the world.

I have come to hear what Chief Mazeppa of the Dkota and Ulster has to say to the peaceful people he has attacked.