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ˈredcoat, red-coat, red coat
1. One who wears a red coat; spec.
a. A soldier of the British army. Now Hist.
In the Civil War commonly applied to the Parliamentary troops or some regiments of them, though each side had red-coated soldiers.
1520Song Lady Bessy (Percy Soc.) 74 Sir William Standley..Ten thowsand read coates that had hee. 1644Vicar God in Mount 200 Colonell Hollis his regiment of Red-coats..did most gallant service. 1660Trial Regic. 192, I do not charge you that you commanded those Halbertiers, but those Red-coats; you were all in Red. 1725B. Higgons Rem. Burnet ii. Hist. Wks. 1736 II. 114 They..violently drove the Orthodox Ministers from their Livings, by the Help of their ruffianly Red-coats. 1775Sheridan St. Patr. Day i. ii, Egad, he'll make the redcoats keep their distance. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Desp. VII. 69 It would be still necessary to keep your picquets, etc. upon the river, and some red coats in Chamusca. 1862Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 141/2 The police constable would immediately make his appearance on the scene; and if his efforts were fruitless, the red-coats would come too.
b. An attendant wearing a red coat.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxiv, The red-coats wish to be Briareian, so as to hold all the gentlemen's horses.
c. A steward at a Butlin's holiday camp.
1950L. Blair Butlin Holiday Bk. 1949–50 66 The snow eventually disappeared and the ‘Redcoats’ prepared to return to the Holiday Villages. 1962R. North Butlin Story v. 61 Charlie was a Redcoat at Filey for four seasons. 1966P. J. Kavanagh Perfect Stranger iii. 23 To counteract my snobbism, he sent me to Butlin's Holiday Camp to do a month as a Holiday Uncle, or Redcoat. 1979Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 3/3 A holiday camp ‘redcoat’..claimed a world record at Brighton yesterday, by eating 100 peanuts in 46 seconds.
d. The title of a particular attendant at the door of the House of Lords.
1972Times 22 July 12/5 Redcoat is the only attendant dressed in red in the House, a reminder that his was a royal appointment of Charles II's originally. The King, visiting the Lords and finding no one to greet him, made his own appointment on the spot. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 6 Dec. 29/2 C. D. Maxted, known as Red Coat, is a familiar figure to all peers as they arrive at the Lords.
2. Bot. A small Brazilian tree (Erythrochiton).
1866Treas. Bot. 962/1.
3. attrib. in sense ‘red-coated’, as redcoat bully, redcoat guard, redcoat type; also red-coat mite (see quot. 1867).
1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 572 The field with red-coat bullies glow'd, Who cut each other's throats. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. iii, One sees..‘United Services’ quite other than the redcoat one. 1867Nat. Encycl. I. 100 Trombidiidæ, or garden mites, as T. holosericeum, or ‘red-coat’ mite. 1895Daily News 25 June 3/3 His Highness..inspected the Redcoat guard of honour. 1906Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 2/1 The British markets want large, bright apples, preferably of the red-coat type. |