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long coat, ˈlong-coat
a. A coat reaching to the ankles; also in pl. (= long-clothes) the garments of a baby in arms. Also attrib.
b. One who wears a long coat.
1603Dekker Grissil ii. i. (Shaks. Soc.) 18 Yet he doth but as many of his brother knights do, keep an ordinary table for him and his long coat follower. That long coat makes the master a little king. 1614R. Tailor Hog hath lost his Pearl iii. E 2 Ile laugh shalt see enough, and thou shalt weepe Softly, good long coate, softly. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair i. i, And where hee spi'd a Parrat, or a Monkey, there hee was pitch'd, with all the little-long-coats about him male and female. 1625― Staple of News iii. i, A Cabal..set out by Archie, Or some such head, of whose long coat they haue heard, And, being black, desire it. 1667Evelyn Diary 29 Jan., Not as yet 13 years old. He was newly out of long coates. 1840Thackeray Catherine vii, Master Thomas Billings..was in his long-coats fearfully passionate. |