overcoat
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: over‧coat
Noun
editovercoat (plural overcoats)
- A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
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editVerb
editovercoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)
- (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
- 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:
- One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.