Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
coat , 2.
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Examples
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As he started to go out he found the ticket-taker changing his long light-blue robe of state for a highly commonplace sack-coat without brass buttons.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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They have one for the morning, which is called a sack-coat, that is, tailless, and is of mixed colors.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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On this occasion he wore a sack-coat of medium length, with side-pockets.
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The horseman with his sack-coat, baggy velvet trousers and slouch hat looks not unlike a rough rider along the shores of the Mississippi River.
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His face showed traces of a puzzled diffidence, as that of a man who has come in sack-coat to a full-dress function; but after all it was satisfaction that predominated, for after this heroic effort he had decided that Victory had at last perched upon his banners.
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As he started to go out he found the ticket-taker changing his long light-blue robe of state for a highly commonplace sack-coat without brass buttons.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Plato, including Carl Ericson, that they sat as uncomfortable as though they were individually accused by the plump pedant who was weakly glaring at them, his round, childish hand clutching the sloping edge of the oak reading-stand, his sack-coat wrinkled at the shoulders and sagging back from his low linen collar.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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As he started to go out he found the ticket-taker changing his long light-blue robe of state for a highly commonplace sack-coat without brass buttons.
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Leandro drew from the inside pocket of his sack-coat a long, narrow knife; the onlookers retreated to the walls so as to leave plenty of room for the duellists.
The Quest P��o Baroja 1914
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His trousers were wide and belted at the waist, and his short sack-coat hung open.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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