covert-coat

Before she could do so, however, there was a further arrival: a pleasant-looking elderly man in an old-fashioned covert-coat with a professional air about him.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

His tweed hat was pulled down over his nose and his hands were thrust deep in the pockets of his covert-coat.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

P. _, on noticing that, in the dialogue under a picture, last week, the spelling of "cover-coat" for "covert-coat" had escaped his eagle eye.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various

I thought it over for a few minutes; then I put on walking-shoes over bare feet, a heavy covert-coat, and a woolly cap.

Clouds of Witness Sayers, Dorothy L. 1927

I wore the shortest of tweed skirts, knickerbockers of the same stuff, top-boots, a covert-coat and a coloured scarf round my head.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

Regardless of every other consideration, she snatched the blankets and the covert-coat skirts into one massive handful, and with, as has been indicated, a yell of housemaid stridency, flung herself against the door and dashed into the sitting-room, closely followed by Nora, and rather less closely by the rat.

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

I stepped back as he raised himself, and saw a little pyramid of slates snip the sky above the gate; as he squirmed over I ran forward, and had my own weight on the spikes and corks and covert-coat when he gave the latter a tug.

The Amateur Cracksman 1902

Raffles, however, had seen the place by daylight, and had come prepared for the special obstacles; already he was reaching up and putting champagne corks on the spikes, and in another moment he had his folded covert-coat across the corks.

The Amateur Cracksman 1902

The man was too far away for me to swear to his face, but he wore a covert-coat of un-English length, and the lamp across the road played steadily on his boots; they were very yellow, and they made no noise when he took a turn.

Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 1901

Suddenly I noticed a tall man, wearing a tweed cap and a long covert-coat, his hands in his pockets, a stumpy cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth.

The Mystery of the Green Ray William Le Queux 1895