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great-coat, greatcoat|ˌgreɪtˈkəʊt, ˈgreɪtˌkəʊt|
‘The Dicts. mark the stress as ˈgreatcoat or ˈgreatˌcoat; in England the stress seems to be usually on the last syllable, less frequently equal.’ (N.E.D.)
A large heavy overcoat; a top-coat.
1661–85Househ. Ord. 362 None shall presume to come into Our Privy Chamber..in cloakes, or great coates, or in bootes. 1714Post Boy No. 2970 Horsemens Great-Coats made of a good West-Country Drab Cloth. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) 441 The hood of a great-coat. 1826Scott Jrnl. 16 Dec., Came home through a cold easterly rain without a greatcoat. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 203 Heavy greatcoats with triple capes.
Hence greatˈcoat v. trans., to dress in a greatcoat; greatˈcoatless a., without a great-coat.
1882Daily News 10 Apr. 5/2 The prudent man still great⁓coats himself. 1887Ibid. 27 Dec. 5/1 He fled, great-coatless, into the snow. 1891Pall Mall G. 1 Apr. 6/1 ‘We are sitting out of doors, greatcoatless and hatless’, writes a correspondent from Lago Maggiore on Easter Sunday. |