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Close-fitting outer garment
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coatee
Alternative clues for the word coatee
Word definitions for coatee in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A coat with short flaps
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A coatee was a type of tight fitting uniform coat or jacket , which was waist length at the front and had short tails behind. The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coatee \Coat*ee"\ (k[-o]t*[=e]"), n. A coat with short flaps.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short close-fitting coat
Usage examples of coatee.
He wore a double-breasted blue coatee, bright with chevrons, brass buttons, and gold-braided epaulets.
He wore a double breasted blue coatee, bright with chevrons, brass buttons, and gold-braided epaulets.
Their dress, especially that of the younger, amused us by its queer mixture of fashionableness and homeliness, such as grey ribbed stockings and shining paste shoebuckles, rusty velvet small-clothes and a coatee of blue cloth.
But from the looks of the wound—what Sheff could see of it, which was a coatee blood-soaked above the waist—he might very well not be in a few days.
Johnson helping him with the coatee, and made it out into the boardinghouse’s salon, he discovered that the whole room had been rearranged.
The hussar-style uniform had the green pants of an officer, unlike the white ones of enlisted men, with a much fancier green coatee trimmed with black, and the distinctive fur cap.
Except for Ian and Kyle Macdonald —who wore full Scottish fig, including Balmoral bonnets with rakish feathers, kilts, fancy shirts with lacy jabots at the neck, and black velvet Prince Charlie coatees with square jeweled buttons—the gents were a muted symphony in dove gray.
Bruce Scott, owner of the men's store, had told him the evening would be informal: no Prince Charlie coatees, no fur sporrans, and no fringed plaids thrown over the shoulder and anchored with a poached egg.