coatn.
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/ I. A garment.figurative.1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. L She was sought by spirits of ritchest cote.† 6. Garb as indicating profession (e.g. clerical); hence, profession, class, order, sort, party; chiefly in such phrases as a man of his coat, one of their own coat, etc. Very common in 17th cent. (Cf. cloth n. 14, 15) Obsolete.
1.
a. An outer garment worn by men; usually of cloth, with sleeves.In olden times the name was sometimes given to a tunic or close-fitting garment coming no lower than the waist (cf. waistcoat n.); and it was especially applied to the close-fitting tunic which when armed constituted the coat of mail (sense 5), as in quots. c1300, c1475. In modern use, coat means a garment for the body with loose skirts descending below the waist.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat
coatc1300
tog1708
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > coat of mail or corselet
ring netOE
burnec1050
briniec1175
hauberk1297
coatc1300
bryn1330
habergeon1377
jackc1380
doublet of defence (or fence)1418
petticoatc1425
gesteron1469
byrnie1488
coat of fence1490
corset1490
corse1507
sark of mail1515
plate-coat1521
shirt of mail1522
mail-coat1535
corslet1563
costlet1578
pewter coat1584
cataphract1591
pyne doublet1600
sponge1600
coat-armour1603
brace1609
coat of arms1613
frock of mail1671
mail-shirt1816
mail-sark1838
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > plate-coat or -jacket
coatc1300
acton1328
jackc1380
haquetona1400
jazeranta1400
coat of fence1490
halkrig1516
plate-coat1521
coat-armour1603
coat of arms1613
plate-jackc1720
jacket1916
flak jacket1956
c1300 K. Alis. 2413 Ther was..mony bore thorugh the scheld. Ther was kut mony a kote.
a1400–50 Alexander 5471 Sum of seelis of þe see sendis to him cotes.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 152 A strayt cote ful streȝt..A mere mantile abof.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 330 He rood but hoomly in a medlee coote.
c1475 Partenay 4218 Such a stroke hym dalt ther vppon his cote ne had the hauberke smal mail be..ille hym had come.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Cote for a ladde, jacquette.
1532–3 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 13 Dublettes and sleuelesse cotes.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 74 Your cord and lowsie coit and sark.
1737 J. Wesley Jrnl. 9 July (1739) 45 He was as black as your Coat with the Blows which they had given him.
1853 F. D. Maurice Theol. Ess. v. 96 They may put on coats without collars and become stiff Anglicans.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 222 They never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
b. With special qualifications in special senses, as black coat, dress coat, frock coat, great coat, red coat, etc.; see black coat n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a), dress coat n. at dress n. Compounds 2b, etc.
2.
a. A garment worn suspended from the waist by women or young children; a petticoat, a skirt. Usually in plural = petticoats (in petticoat n.); also, the skirts of a dress. Obsolete in literary language, but widely used in dialects.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt
gorea1250
coat1393
skirta1400
placket1547
vasquine1553
petticoata1586
vascay1609
jupe1825
jupon1851
skirty1922
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > skirt(s)
skirta1400
basea1509
coat1620
tail1888
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 47 Her cote was somdel to-tore.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 50 A cote and a smocke that ye gave to too pore women [Fr. une cotte et une chemise].
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 65 This woman had tenne diverse gownes and as mani cotes.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 19 I haue shapen a cote to the quiene of heuen.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D2v Not refusing to weare russet coates.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 16 Cel. If we walke not in the trodden paths our very petty-coates will catch them. Ros. I could shake them off my coate, these burs are in my heart. View more context for this quotation
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. vii. 54 Donna Rodriguez tuck'd up her Coats.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 341 For the Languages, or Philosophy, that Ingenious Gentlewoman at Utricht, may in her long Coates put some black coates to the Blush.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §141. 176 I remember..being at a Friend's House, whose younger Son, a Child in Coats [etc.].
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xx. 50 I had a pretty good Camlet quilted Coat.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. iii. 104 A..gown, or body, with ample coats to it.
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea x. 446 I have seen the women of Auchmithie ‘kilt their coats’ and rush into the water in order to aid in shoving off the boats.
1883 H. Watterson Oddities Southern Life 478 My wife..hoisted her coats and waded through.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Coats, petticoats.
b. Sometimes used for a woman's outer garment; esp. in modern use, a stout buttoned overcoat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other
kirtlec893
viteroke?c1225
bleauntc1314
surcoata1330
paltock1353
courtepy1362
tunicle1377
gipona1387
juponc1400
petticoatc1425
wardecorpsc1440
placard1483
galbart1488
corsletc1500
truss1563
gippo1617
juste-au-corps1656
fore-belly1663
vest1666
justicoat1669
coat1670
amiculum1722
arba kanfot1738
slip1762
hap-warm1773
aba1792
Moldave1800
abaya1810
saya1811
tzitzit1816
cote-hardie1834
tobe1835
yelek1836
panties1845
cyclas1846
exomis1850
himation1850
jumper1853
blouse1861
peplum1866
exomion1875
confection1885
lammy1886
surquayne1887
bluey1888
fatigue-blouse1890
sling-jacket1900
top1902
sun top1934
sillapak1942
tank top1949
ao dai1961
tank1985
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of
pee1483
shuba1598
surtout1686
wrap-rascal1716
pea-jacket1717
box coat1718
toggy1742
jockey-coata1745
redingote1770
Polonese coat1774
pea coat1790
spencer1795
grego1809
benjamin1810
bang-up1835
pilot jacket1839
pilot coat1840
Petersham1842
taglioni1843
Chesterfield1852
siphonia1853
raglan1857
Inverness overcoat1865
immensikoff1870
Ulster1876
ulsterette1881
coat1889
polonaise1890
covert coata1893
benny1903
macfarlane1920
1670 Mrs. E. in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) IV. 20 Fitting my little niece with a mantle coat, bodice coat, petticoat narrow shoes and stockings.
?1790 M. A. Kilner Jemima Placid (ed. 3) 37 All the rest of the ladies will wear either gauze frocks or silk coats full trimmed.
1889 Draper's Sale Catalogue Ladies' Long Cloth Coats, tight-fitting, tailor-made. Girls' Cloth Jackets, Coats, Ulsters, etc.
1890 M. Oliphant Janet I. ii Her own hat put on and her coat buttoned to the throat.
3. Used to translate ancient words, Latin tunica, Greek χιτών (chiton n.), Hebrew k'thōneth, kuttōneth. (The first two are now usually rendered tunic n., or left untranslated.)
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c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 43 Crist bad men sille þer cootis and bie hem swerdis.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. v. 3 I [the Bride] spoilede me of my coote.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iii. 21 The Lord God forsothe made to Adam and his wijf lether cootes.
c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) ii. 9 The Cros of our Lord..and his Cote withouten Semes.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 654/31 Hec tunica, cote.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Matt. v. 40 And yf eny man will..take away thy coote, let hym haue thy cloocke also.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxvii. 3 He made him a coat of many colours. View more context for this quotation
1844 Newspapers John Ronge, and the ‘Holy Coat’ of Treves.
4. Heraldry. = coat of arms n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms
armsc1325
blazonc1325
heraldy1390
coat-armour1393
coatc1400
hatchment1522
coat of arms1562
tokens1562
achievement1572
heraldry1594
coat-arms1623
emblazonment1799
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 637 Þe pen-tangel nwe He ber in schelde & cote.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) vi. 87 A Cote is gyuen to a knyght in sygnefyaunce of the grete trauaylles that a knyght must suffre for to honoure chyualrye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 14 They may giue the dozen white Luces in their Coate . View more context for this quotation
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. e6 Whose Coat was three Toades, Sable field Or.
1671 T. Shadwell Humorists iii, in Wks. (1720) I. 172 The Coat of our Family, which is an Ass rampant.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xix. 477 He sued for the privilege of his heraldic coat.
5. coat of mail: a piece of defensive armour covering the upper part of the body, composed of a linen or leathern jacket, quilted with interlaced rings or overlapping plates of steel. (See mail n.3) So †coat of fence (obsolete). [See c1300 at sense 1a, c1475 at sense 1a in sense 1.]
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > coat of mail or corselet
ring netOE
burnec1050
briniec1175
hauberk1297
coatc1300
bryn1330
habergeon1377
jackc1380
doublet of defence (or fence)1418
petticoatc1425
gesteron1469
byrnie1488
coat of fence1490
corset1490
corse1507
sark of mail1515
plate-coat1521
shirt of mail1522
mail-coat1535
corslet1563
costlet1578
pewter coat1584
cataphract1591
pyne doublet1600
sponge1600
coat-armour1603
brace1609
coat of arms1613
frock of mail1671
mail-shirt1816
mail-sark1838
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > plate-coat or -jacket
coatc1300
acton1328
jackc1380
haquetona1400
jazeranta1400
coat of fence1490
halkrig1516
plate-coat1521
coat-armour1603
coat of arms1613
plate-jackc1720
jacket1916
flak jacket1956
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 117 They wered alwayes theyr cote of mayle all rousty vpon theyr doubelettes.
?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 859/2 A dronken Flemminge..put on a coate of fence.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales ii. iv. 37 The Germans had neither coat of fence nor helmet.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xvii. 5 He was armed with a coate of male . View more context for this quotation
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 211 Dominic..had next to his skin an iron coat of mail.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xxiv. 92 Gay shields were cleft..And steel coats riven.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class > level or grade
mannishOE
placec1330
state1340
gree1382
conditionc1384
sectc1384
sortc1386
ordera1400
raff?a1400
degreea1425
countenancec1477
faction?1529
estate1530
race1563
calibre1567
being1579
coat1579
rang1580
rank1585
tier1590
classis1597
strain1600
consequence1602
regiment1602
sept1610
standinga1616
class1629
species1629
nome1633
quality1636
sort1671
size1679
situation1710
distinction1721
walk of life1733
walk1737
stage1801
strata1805
grade1808
caste1816
social stratum1838
station1842
stratum1863
echelon1950
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July f. 28v This [sc. Moses] had a brother,..the first of all his cote.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxx. 238 The Tribunes Militarie..were so..reverenced among those of their owne coat and faction [L. inter suos].
a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 102 A doctor of Physic being returned one of the burgesses, Which was not ordinary in any of his coat.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. iii. 28 The Archbishop of Canterbury..a man..of a disposition too fierce and cruel for his Coat.
1687 J. Gother Catholic Representer 60 Reports..carried about..by Men of all Coats.
1689 T. Ken Let. 5 Oct. in E. H. Plumptre Life Thomas Ken (1888) II. 48 Scandalized at many persons of our own coat.
1774 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 483 I know no man of his coat who would fall in so well with you.
II. A covering compared to a garment.
7. transferred. A natural covering or integument.
a. An animal's covering of hair, fur, wool, feathers, etc.; rarely the skin or hide.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > coat
coat1393
indument1578
jacket1613
attire1798
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 143 When he [Nebuchadnezzar] beheld his cote of heres.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 86 Men schulden accorde to gidere..as doggis doon..whanne ech of hem terith otheris coot.
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iii Rewarde not the shepe, when thou takest his cote: with two or three patches.
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (3rd impr.) sig. C5 His life is like a hawkes, the best part mewed; and if hee liue till three coates [printed Ioates] is a master.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 37 Such groanes That their discharge did stretch his [sc. a stag's] leatherne coat Almost to bursting. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 406 Fish..sporting with quick glance Show to the Sun thir wav'd coats dropt with Gold. View more context for this quotation
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 342 A Hawk of the first coat, accipiter bimus; of the second coat, trimus.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 44 The mules..have their coats closely shorn.
b. Physiology. A membrane or other structure investing or lining an organ of an animal body (as the arachnoid coat of the brain, the choroid coat of the eye), or forming one of the layers of which the walls of a hollow organ or vessel consist (as the coats of the stomach, of the arteries).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering
hameOE
curtel1398
pelliculea1400
coatc1400
pellicle?a1425
investment1646
tegument1646
cataphragm1656
integument1664
cortexa1676
vagina1683
vaginula1698
scabbard1753
sheath1805
calyx1851
ocrea1890
tunica adventitia1890
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurgie 26 Þe toþer arterie..haþ two cootis, bi cause þat oon myȝt not aȝenstonde þe strenkþe of þe spiritis.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 290 The coats of the Ventricle.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 84 The three coats of an artery are wounded.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxv. 286 The eyeball..consists of four coats or membranes.
c. A structure forming the integument of some part of a plant, or anything similar; as the skin, rind, husk, etc., of a fruit or seed; †the rind of cheese (obsolete); the layers of a bulb, as an onion; the similar layers of a precious stone, as an agate; the annual layers of wood in exogenous trees, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer
rindOE
cloth1398
tayc1440
skina1475
coat1567
slough1610
hulling1708
surtout1732
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 44 Eche coate of his..set in the Gardaine or otherwhere will soone come vp.
1597 F. Thynne Names & Armes Chauncelors in Animaduersions (1875) p. c The swete chestnute is couered with a..rooffe coote.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 5 The Coats of the Bean being stripp'd off, the proper Seed shews it self.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 195 The concave Surfaces that make a Globe (as the Coats of an Onion).
1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) ii. 15 Cheese is to be chosen by its moist and smooth coat.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 570 On that side the annual coats of wood are thinner.
1875 J. W. Dawson Life's Dawn on Earth v. 95 Bands of differently coloured materials deposited in succession, like the coats of an onyx agate.
8. Nautical. A piece of tarred canvas or tarpaulin nailed round the mast, bowsprit, or pumps, where they enter the deck, or round the hole in which the rudder traverses, to keep the water out.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > plugs or packing to keep water out
coat1626
hawse-plug1627
fother1800
shot-plug1867
jackass1889
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 Coates..for all masts and yeards.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World i. 4 The helm coat was wash'd away.
1729 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 22 Sept. Took in new Coats for the Helm and Pumps.
1800 Naval Chron. 3 299 He found..the main-mast's coat..in flames.
9. A layer of any substance, such as paint, tar, plaster, etc., covering a surface; spec. so much as is laid on at one time; a coating.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > of material laid on
coat1663
coating1771
overcast1798
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 80 With Coate of Lime and haire..and a Coate of fine playster.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iii. 36 Over all is a Coat of rich Mould.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Give her a good coat of tar.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 477 The tongue is usually dry; a coat or covering forms upon it.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. iii. 92 The coat of varnish which surrounded every particle.
1891 N.E.D. at Coat Mod. All external woodwork to receive three coats of paint.
10. figurative. Anything that covers, invests, or conceals.
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iii. 60 Cowardice..for which thou well deserv'st A coat of tombstone [i.e. a stoning].
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 20 Heaven's Star-embroidered Coat.
1771 S. Johnson Falkland's Islands 54 He walks..in a coat of darkness.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §20. 138 The mountain..with its crest of crag and coat of snows.
III. Elliptical uses, phrases, etc.† 11. Short for coat-card n. Obsolete.† 12. Short for coat-money n. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > picture-card
coat-card1563
coated card1566
coat1589
court-card1641
courtier1658
face1674
picture card1707
faced-card1708
pictured card?1770
face carda1804
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. C3v Euerie coate and sute are sorted in their degree.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 31 Heer's a trick of discarded Cards of us, wee were ranked with Coats as long as old master lived.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 104 When she is pleas'd to trick, or trompe mankinde: Some may be Cotes, as in the cards; but, then Some must be knaues.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > military exactions > [noun]
coynye1449
scutagec1460
spear silver1496
conduct-money1512
coat-money1557
bonaght1568
cessc1571
cosheringc1571
cessheryc1575
quartering-money1580
sessa1581
coshery1587
coatc1630
ship-money1636
shipping-money1640
ship-scot1640
conduct1644
trophy money1664
trophy tax1701
watch-mail1710
Saladine tax1728
1512 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIII. 327 He shall also Receyve for the Coote of every Capitaine and Souldeor foure Shillings.]
c1630 Scotch Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 245 (Jam.) Subsideis, fyftenes, tents, coats, taxatiouns or tallages.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 34 He who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 232 Warrants..for the levying of Men, and for Coats and Conduct-money.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. xxi. 178 For coat and conduct, 6446. 12. 2.
13. Proverbs and Phrases. †to baste (pay, etc.) his coat: to beat him. †to be in any one's coat: to be in his place, ‘stand in his shoes’. to cut the coat according to the cloth: see cloth n. 10, cut v. 45 to trail one's coat: see trail v.1 1d †to turn one's coat: to change or abandon one's principles, desert one's party, apostatize (cf. turncoat n. and adj.). to wear the king's coat: to serve as a soldier. And others: see quots.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > be a substitute [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for ——OE
to stand in a person's stead?a1515
to be in any one's coat1530
walk1558
to serve the turn of1565
succenturiate1647
commute1653
to hand the saw1654
substitute1675
surrogate1681
to be in (another person's) shoes1767
substitute1888
pinch-hit1911
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 498/2 I coyle ones kote, I beate hym.
1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) f. xvv The englyshe prouerbe sayeth thus: Nere is my cote but nerer is my shyrt.
1549 in P. F. Tytler Eng. under Edward VI & Mary (1839) I. 171 (modernized text) I would not be in some of their coats for five marks.
a1569 A. Kingsmill Viewe Mans Estate (1580) vi. 31 It is but vaine to saie this, If I had been in Adam's coate.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 107/2 We shall see these backesliders, which knowe the Gospell, reuolt & turne their cotes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. i. 30 I would not be in some of your coats for two pence. View more context for this quotation
1636 J. Henshaw Horæ Succisivæ (ed. 4) 72 His charity begins at home, and there it ends: neare is his coat, but neerer is his skin.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 10 Apr. (1972) VI. 77 He desired me that I would baste his coate.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1974) VIII. 348 I wish he had paid this fellow's coat well.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xxi. 166 I thought you had worn the king's coat!
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Attributive.
coat-collar n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > collar > types of
chevesailec1400
roll collar1832
coat-collar1833
bertha1842
step-roll1881
open-neck1894
step-collar1895
button-down1897
turtle-neck1897
Shakespeare collar1907
polo collar1909
shawl collar1913
polo neck1924
mandarin collar1952
petal collar1957
polo1967
1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 20 July 195/3 The back rim [of his hat] is turned up by coming in contact with his coat collar.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career viii. 132 A young man that..keeps the dander all off his coat-collar.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny ii. 38 Mr. Robert..turned his coat collar up about his neck and ears.
coat-cuff n.
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1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) iv. 42 Note..the snowy spotlessness of the linen exposed by the turn up of his coat-cuff.
coat-flap n.
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1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne ii. 31 A torn coat-flap.
coat-pocket n.
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1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 56 [He] slipt it into his Coat-pocket.
coat-pouch n.
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1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 384 What's that in your coat-pouch?
coat-rack n.
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1919 H. Walpole Secret City iii. xv. 435 No young man likes to be discovered hidden behind a coat-rack, however honest his original intentions!
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer v. 84 He glanced quickly at the coat-rack.
coat-room n.
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1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers i. 10 [He] made his appearance through the window looking into the coat-room.
1935 A. Squire Sing Sing Doctor xiv. 209 They pass first through a small vestibule flanked by a coat room.
coat-skirt n.
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1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xvii, in Writings I. 174 He felt something pulling at his coat-skirt.
coat-sleeve n.
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1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxvii. 305 Mr. Codlin rubbed the bridge of his nose with his coat-sleeve.
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coat-seller n.
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1705 London Gaz. No. 4092/4 Hugh Gronouse and John James, of London, Coatsellers.
coat-turning n. (see 13.)
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1888 Sat. Rev. 3 Nov. 529/2 Anything in the way of recantation, coat-turning, word-eating.
C3. Special combinations:† coat-deblazoning adj. Obsolete ? blazoning arms.† coat-feathers n. Obsolete ‘the small or body feathers’ (Nares). † coat-plight n. Obsolete a ‘plight’ or fold of a coat.
coat and skirt n. A two-piece costume; also General attributive (with hyphens).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [adjective] > other
spatterdashed1848
Prince Albert1873
white tie1876
two-piecec1880
man-of-war1883
coat and skirt1895
Lovat1895
plus four1921
black tie1933
Savile Row1972
vested1976
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other
ensemble1802
Bloomer costume1851
coat and skirt1895
blouse suit1905
jumper suit1908
suit dress1917
tailleur1923
twin set1937
salwar-kameez1955
co-ordinates1959
theatre suit1964
trikini1967
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1234 Costumes... Plain Serge Coat and Skirt.
1906 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 8/1 Those useful coat-and-skirt costumes.
1908 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff ii. xi. 212 I'm afraid she found my clothes rather overpowering, though I'd only a coat and skirt on.
1930 Times 11 Sept. 13/6 A coat and skirt in brown velveteen.
coat-arms n. (plural) = coat-armour n., coat of arms n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms
armsc1325
blazonc1325
heraldy1390
coat-armour1393
coatc1400
hatchment1522
coat of arms1562
tokens1562
achievement1572
heraldry1594
coat-arms1623
emblazonment1799
1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vii. v. 212/2 The coat-armes of the parties empaled.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. x. 248 The proper cognizances and coatarmes of the Tribes. View more context for this quotation
1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xiv. 89 Supposing that tournaments..and coat arms, and aristocratic institutions, are essential to chivalry.
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1640 Yorke's Union Hon. Commend. Verses Those Coat-deblaz'ning Windowes.
coat-dress n. a tailored dress resembling a coat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > coat-dress
coat-dress1915
coat-frock1917
1915 in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing (1952) iv. 130 The coat-dress has an assured future.
coat-facing n. material of a kind different from the cloth of the coat and used as a facing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for coats, cloaks, or shawls
coating1802
shawlingc1806
Petersham1812
cloaking1840
frocking1864
overcoating1865
ulstering1888
pink1889
mantling1893
covert cloth1895
coat-facing1900
covert coating1900
bluey1934
1900 Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 3/2 Velvet is conspicuous as a coat facing in some of the newest models.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > down or down-feather > below outer feathers
coat-feathers1585
under-down1842
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator Pennæ vestitrices..καλυπτῆρες. The lesser feathers which covered the birds: their cote fethers.
coat-frock n. = coat-dress n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > coat-dress
coat-dress1915
coat-frock1917
1917 in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing (1952) iv. 138 Every woman is wearing a coat-frock.
1923 Harmsworth Househ. Encycl. II. 956/3 Coat frock. This is a one-piece dress, usually made of some thick material suitable for wearing out of doors.
1936 N. Coward Fumed Oak in To-night at 8.30 38 She wears a nondescript coat-frock.
1959 Sunday Express 27 Sept. 14/5 A tailored dress? You mean more of a coat-frock, don't you?
coat hanger n. a piece of wood, metal, or plastic on which a coat or dress may be hung, curved so as to fit the shoulders of the garment and having a hook by which it may be suspended in a wardrobe or elsewhere; also transferred.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > hanger for
gambrela1652
hanger1873
coat hanger1895
shoulder1899
clothes-hanger1934
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 439/1 Coat Hangers.
1908 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 8/5 Most women have six or seven coat-hangers in their closets.
1962 Engineering 2 Mar. 297 Much use has been made throughout both buildings of the precast vault with its integral ‘coat hanger’ beam.
coat-link n. a pair of buttons joined by a short link, or a button with a loop, for holding together the lappets of a coat.
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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 57 Persey..so warely did it shunne, As that it in his coteplights hung.
coat-tack n. Nautical a tack or nail for fastening the coats (see 8). See also coat-armour n., etc.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Coat~tacks, the peculiar nails with which the mast coats are fastened.
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coatv.
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/ 1. transitive. To provide with a coat; to clothe in a coat; to dress, clothe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > coat
coat1362
greatcoat1839
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 138 Heo Copeþ þe Comissarie and Coteþ þe Clerkes.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiii. 391 That their Images should be wel painted, and wel coted.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. liii. 240 Scarse will their Studies stipend them, their wiues, and Children cote.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 192 Nurses..erre while they too soon Coat feebler Infants.
1798 R. Southey Compl. Poor in Lyric Poems We were wrapt and coated well.
2. To cover with a surface layer or coating (or with successive layers) of any substance, as paint, tar, tinfoil, etc.; also predicated of the substance covering the surface.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)]
lay?a1366
overlaya1400
coverc1400
sheeta1616
glidder1631
candy1639
face1648
to do over1700
coat1753
candify1777
bed1839
to lay down1839
overcoat1861
1753 B. Franklin Let. 12 Apr. in Wks. (1887) II. 287 Leaf tin..is best to coat them [sc. electrical jars] with.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 83 The Dutch preserve their..Sluices, etc. by coating them over with a mixture of Pitch and Tar.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. 124 The granite was now coated with lichens.
1860 J. E. Tennent Story of Guns (1864) 227 The idea of coating ships with armour.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 65 Layers of ice..coating a white snowy central mass.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > exhibit armorial bearings [verb (transitive)]
bearc1400
wear1463
give1548
coat1664
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. e5v Constantine the great did Coat a double-headed-Eagle.
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