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whitecoat|ˈhwaɪtkəʊt|
Also white-coat, white coat.
1. a. A soldier wearing a white or light-coloured coat: cf. buff-coat 2. (Also attrib.) Obs. exc. Hist.
1555in Arb. Garner VIII. 60 A certain Band of White Coats..sent unto them from London. 1562in Archaeologia XLVII. 221 Yt apeareth a greate differens..betwene the excercised souldior and the rawe white coat. 1571R. Bannatyne Mem. (Bann. Club) 91 Thare began flyting,..‘Away blewcoate!’ ‘I defy the whytcoite!’ 1605Heywood If you know not me C 2, Enter three white-cote souldiers. 1631― Engl. Eliz. 113 For her guard two hundred Northern White Coates were appointed..to watch about her lodging. 1644in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. II. 634 The Marquess of Newcastle's Regiment of White Coats were almost wholly cut off for they scorned to fly. 1662A. Cooper Stratologia vi. 115 In the main battail do our white Coats stand. 1840Hor. Smith Oliver Cromwell II. 159 Newcastle with all his whitecoats.
b. In modern times, an Austrian soldier.
1861Meredith Let. to Mrs. J. Ross 19 Nov., Verona..is now less a City than a fortress. You see nothing but white coats—who form the majority of the inhabitants.
2. A young seal, having a coat of white fur; also the fur itself.
1792G. Cartwright Jrnl. Labrador III. p. x, Whitecoat, a young seal, before it has cast its first coat, which is white and furry. 1892Daily News 28 Mar. 6/2 The skin of the small pup seal..is of small value, being known as ‘White⁓coat’.
3. A doctor or hospital attendant who wears a white coat.
1911[see schmerz]. 1932‘Jock’ Dartmoor from Within vi. 134 He makes straight for the tub, and ‘White Coat’ alters his course to cut him off. 1980Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 934/2 We roar into the hospital. White coats run out. |