单词 | side-coat |
释义 | side-coatn. After 17th cent. chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern and north midlands), or historical. 1. A long coat; a greatcoat. Also: †a waistcoat (obsolete). Cf. side adj. 2a(a).Perhaps not a fixed collocation in some early quots. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > long side-coata1382 longcoat1538 jubbah1548 polony1722 polonaise1819 jibbah1848 achkan1911 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxvii. 23 As he come to his breþern, þey nakidyn hym þe syde cote [L. tunica] to þe heel. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes To Rdr. sig. ✠iiv For all is not golde that shyneth, nether are they all of Christes couent, that weare brode crownes, wide coules, and syde coates. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 14 Lolioes side-cote is rough Pampilian. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xii. 1) iii. 251 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. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Sidelinge In the North, wastcoats are call'd Side-coats. 1753 Scots Mag. July 338/1 Allan was then dressed in a blue side coat, a red vest, and feathered hat. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 723 You've got a side-coat on. 1898 S. R. Crockett Standard Bearer xviii. 159 An old serving-man, in a blue side-coat of thirty years before. 1923 E. K. Chambers Elizabethan Stage I. iv. 145 Lee doffed his armour, put it on Cumberland as his successor, and himself assumed, as a sign of his retirement, a side coat of black velvet and a buttoned cap of the country fashion. 1992 J. Haynes Social Relations of Jonson's Theater ii. 16 There is no comment on changing fashions, even as Mankind's side coat is cut down into a fashionably short jacket. 2. A long garment worn by children; (also) a long garment traditionally worn by a jester, court fool, etc. Frequently in plural. Cf. longcoat n. 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > for a baby > long clothes longcoat1591 side-coat1601 long clothes1764 long1837 swaddling-robe1845 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. v. 568 One [satyr] seemeth to carrie on his shoulders prince Bacchus arraied like a girle in a side coat or gown [Fr. robbe de femme; L. palla]. 1607 T. Tomkis Lingua iii. ii How he played at blow-point with Jupiter, when he was in his side-coats. 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. E2v I grieue to see this double garded age, all side coate, all foole. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim iii. 8 That truth was but a stripling, or rather went in side-coats till it came to their schools. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory i. 244 The proud..make themselves as ridiculous as men that lay aside their Breeches, and wear Side-coats again like children. 1987 D. Wiles Shakespeare's Clown 184 Hotson describes the custom of dressing idiots in the garb of children, a plain ground-length side-coat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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