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ˈside-coat Now dial.
[side a. 3.]
1. A long coat, a greatcoat.
For unhyphened examples, some of which may strictly belong here, see side a. 3 a.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 19 Lolioes side-cote is rough Pampilian. 1609Ev. Woman in Hum. ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, I grieve to see this double garded age, all side-coate, all foole. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xii. 1 If a man be to run a race,..he will not run in a long side-coat, which may dangle about his feet, and hinder him. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. s.v. Sidelinge, In the North, wastcoats are call'd Side-coats. 1856P. Thompson Hist. Boston 723 You've got a side-coat on.
†2. pl. Long clothes worn by children. Obs. Cf. long coat.
1607Lingua iii. ii, How he played at blow-point with Jupiter, when he was in his side-coats. 1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. iii. 8 That truth was but a stripling, or rather went in side-coats till it came to their schools. |