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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
topcoat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fenn stood in the graveyard, hands in his topcoat pockets, and waited for the priest to join him.
▪ So he went one year at Easter time and got himself all outfitted in a new suit and hat and topcoat.
▪ The breadhead in the brown topcoat now holds a pistol in his hand.
▪ The guard hairs form the protective topcoat.
▪ The man has dark hair and wears a brown topcoat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topcoat

Topcoat \Top"coat`\, n. An outer coat; an overcoat.

Wiktionary
topcoat

n. 1 A light overcoat. 2 A layer of paint applied after the undercoat.

WordNet
topcoat

n. a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter [syn: greatcoat, overcoat]

Wikipedia
Topcoat

Topcoat may refer to:

  • A lightweight overcoat
  • The guard hairs of an animal's fur
  • A transparent or translucent coat of paint or other finish applied over the underlying material as a sealer

Usage examples of "topcoat".

He wore the collar, a black topcoat draped over his shoulders, a soft black Borsalino, black kid gloves which he removed when Father Dunn led the way into the foyer and introduced us.

Reaching inside the gyrocar, Graham hauled out his heavy topcoat, writhed into it.

Lawyers bustled in and out with their briefcases and topcoats in their arms.

The kitchen door swung open and Garrett Wright walked in, tucking his gloves into the pockets of his navy wool topcoat.

He took his time depositing his parka and hat on the rack behind the open door, where two dark topcoats already hung.

That's sweet, Jonesy thinks, then the film jumps and here's an old dude in a rusty black topcoat and a fedora hat - call this elderly dickweed old Mr What'd-l-Do.

His topcoat, Drew realized with anger, was brown camel's hair, the same type of coat that Ray had worn the Saturday morning in October in 1960 when he had come to the playground in Boston where Drew had mourned for his parents, for his ruined life.

Here he pur\-\expndtw-3 chased riding clothes - soft leather boots, dark woollen \expndtw-8 troos, two thick white shirts and a leather topcoat, double-\expndtw0 shouldered and vented at the ribs to allow for ease of \expndtw-10 movement.

Here he purchased riding clothes - soft leather boots, dark woollen troos, two thick white shirts and a leather topcoat, double-shouldered and vented at the ribs to allow for ease of movement.

One man was standing on the running board, and the bulk of the topcoat which he was wearing indicated it covered a bulletproof vest.

He showed up looking like a nineteenth-century English squire, in checked tweed suit, complete with topcoat, shoulder-length cape, deerstalker hat, and smoking a curved briar pipe.

HE HELPED BEAUVOIR carry Jackie out to the stage, where they lay her down in front of a cherryred acoustic drum kit and covered her with an old black topcoat they found in the checkroom, with a velvet collar and years of dust on the shoulders, it had been hanging there so long.

The steel gaffs had slashed the topcoat clean through, pierced Quade's trouser leg and the skin underneath.

And meanwhile I was being fitted with a thick topcoat of soft wool, the material from Crombie, the cut unmistakably Guardee, and of ankle length.

I'm wearing a lamb's wool topcoat, a wool jacket with wool flannel trousers, a cotton shirt, a cashmere V‑.