Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy coat worn over other clothing in cold weather.
- noun An additional, protective coating, as of paint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coat worn over all the other dress; a top-coat; a greatcoat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
- verb transitive To apply an exterior coating to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter
- noun an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish)
Etymologies
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Examples
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(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness.
THE SPIKE 2010
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(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) ` This overcoat is as good as a blanket, 'he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness.
The Spike 1903
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Look at you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are.
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And Frank Langella, precise in hat and overcoat, is a polite and yet threatening presence as the man with the offer, and secrets of his own (and arather nasty CGI scar).
IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 5TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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And Frank Langella, precise in hat and overcoat, is a polite and yet threatening presence as the man with the offer, and secrets of his own (and arather nasty CGI scar).
IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 5TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Look a you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are.
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I still shiver as I remember trying to page through economics texts by the flicker from candles while clad in overcoat, scarf, and little knitted gloves with the fingertips cut off, in the 4 p.m. December twilight in a library at Oxford.
The View from There 2007
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I still shiver as I remember trying to page through economics texts by the flicker from candles while clad in overcoat, scarf, and little knitted gloves with the fingertips cut off, in the 4 p.m. December twilight in a library at Oxford.
The View from There 2007
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I still shiver as I remember trying to page through economics texts by the flicker from candles while clad in overcoat, scarf, and little knitted gloves with the fingertips cut off, in the 4 p.m. December twilight in a library at Oxford.
The View from There 2007
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But he saw nothing of his assailant until a hand appeared above his face, and than his thought was, "What handsome cloth that overcoat is made of!"
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