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surtout|sɜːˈtuːt, sɜːˈtuː|
Also 7 sur-toute, 7–8 sur-tout, (8 surtoot, -toit (?), sourtoot, suttout (?), 9 surtoo).
[a. F. surtout, f. sur above + tout everything.]
A man's great-coat or overcoat.
Applied c 1870 to a kind of single-breasted frock-coat with pockets cut diagonally in front.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2108/4 A white Surtout lin'd with black. 1693Dryden Juvenal iii. 250 The torn Surtout and the tatter'd Vest. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Surtout, a loose, great, or riding Coat. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iv, He was forced constantly to wear a surtout of oiled cloth, by which means he came home pretty clean. 1731Swift Answ. Simile 140 And since we find you walk a-foot, We'll soundly souce your frize surtout. 1788Burns Extempore on W. Smellie 2 The old cock'd hat, the grey surtout. 1800Weems Washington x. (1877) 113 With a surtout over his regimentals. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Tragedy, He put on his surtout, And went to a man with a beard like a Jew. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xi, He wore a long black surtout reaching nearly to his ancles. 1843Lytton Last Bar. iv. v, A green surtout of broad cloth over a tight vest of the same colour. 1858Mrs. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw II. 39 The new coat which his mother called a surtoo. 1870Dickens E. Drood xviii, Being buttoned up in a tightish blue surtout, with a buff waistcoat and gray trousers. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 160 He was wont to take off his loose surtout and travel in his sleeved waistcoat.
attrib.1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2106/4 A new Red Coat lin'd with a Buff-colour'd lining, surtout Sleeves. 1687Ibid. No. 2236/4 A light-colour'd..Sur-toute Coat. 1703Ibid. No. 3957/4 A Cynnamon-colour Surtoit Coat with black Buttons. 1710Ibid. No. 4739/4 A dark Suttout Coat. 1759Phil. Trans. LI. 289 The velvet cape of a surtout coat.
†b. A hood (with a mantle), worn by women.
1690Evelyn Mundus Muliebris 130 Pins..By which the curls are fastened, In radiant firmament set-out, And over all the hood sur-tout. 1694N. H. Ladies Dict. 11/2 A Surtout, is a Night-Hood, which goes over, or covers the rest of the head geer. 1721Ramsay Tartana 124 The Hood and Mantle make the tender faint; I'm pain'd to see them moving like a tent..But know each fair who shall this Sur-tout use, You're no more Scots. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apol. (ed. 3) I. 109 My mother had prudently provided herself with a good surtout.
†c. fig. An outer covering or integument. Obs.
1732Hist. Litteraria IV. 167 The different sorts of Fruit,..some having a Surtout of a harder Texture, and some softer. 1771Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXV. 13 This upper..coat is composed also of hairs which are white from the top to the root, and form the winter surtout for the animal.
†d. Cookery. Applied to various fancy dishes.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Surtout, a Term in the Confectioners Art; as Pistachoes in Surtout... Also a Term in Cookery, as Pigeons dress'd in Surtout. 1743Lady's Companion (ed. 4) I. 183 A Surtout of Soals. |