blue coatn.

Brit.

/ˈbluː kəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈblu ˌkoʊt/

Forms: see blue adj. and n. and coat n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., coat n.

Etymology: < blue adj. + coat n. Compare blue-coated adj.

1. A blue coat as worn by servants, tradesmen, and others of low social status; a similar coat worn by a person provided for at a charitable institution; esp. one worn by a pupil at a blue-coat school (see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > worn by specific people

fool's coat1566

blue coat1576

fisher's coat1611

matinee jacket1882

matinee coat1899

laboratory coatc1936

1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi viii. f. 43 If..you appeare in presence of the king..you a traine must bring, Your tenaunts are good hansome hines, when badged blew cotes on.

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 5 Thou y^t has worne thy selfe & a blewe coate to equall thrydd barenes.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlvii. sig. H10 His Ancient beginning was a blue coat, since a liuery.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 129 Such Worthy Cares as a Reformation of the Hospital-boys Blue Coats.

1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) 423 The Boys and Girls being cloathed in Blue Coats,..and provided with all suitable Necessaries.

a1765 C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) V. 1042 The 200l. that he gave was to cloath the poor annually, three men and three women, in blue coats, at Christmas, and the rest to the poor.

1834 Corporate Offices & Charitable Funds 470 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 460) XLV. 1 To 12 almsmen every second year a blue coat.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. viii. 160 The ‘road-sider’ always wears a blue coat, gilt buttons, and striped kerseymeres.

1892 H. L. Wayland Charles H. Spurgeon x. 161 The children are not institutionalized. They do not wear an antique outlandish garb, like the boys whose blue coats..mark them out in the streets of London.

1902 W. W. Moore 13 Sept. in Year in Europe (1905) xvii. 141 The famous charity school, where the boys wear blue coats, is called ‘The Blukkit School’.

2005 Sun (Nexis) 24 Sept. The 13-year-olds attend Christ's Hospital,..where the old-fashioned uniform includes full-length blue coats, knee-length breeches and long yellow socks.

2. Now usually in form bluecoat. A person whose uniform includes or is distinguished by a blue coat.

†a. A person of low social status; esp. a servant. Also (Scottish): a licensed beggar; = blue gown n. 2. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar

gaberlunzie1508

proctor1529

blue coat1583

blue gown1590

badgeman1668

beadsman1793

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person

swaina1150

ladc1300

loon1535

blue coat1583

gaffer1589

snake1590

meaner1596

frock1612

groundling1630

frock-man1657

coolie1803

simple1824

yellow dog1862

Harry1874

smock-frock1898

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge

drivelc1225

meniala1387

druggarc1500

drudgea1513

kitchen wencha1556

coal carrier1567

droy1570

packhorse?1577

droil1579

blue coat1583

sumpter1587

mill-horse1602

subsizar1602

jackal1649

mediastine1658

slut1664

hack1699

scrub1709

Gibeonite1798

the lion's provider1808

slush1825

Slave of the Lampc1840

runabout1893

lobby-gow1906

squidge1907

dogsbody1922

legman1939

shit-kicker1950

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. X.iv^v I haue..run my selfe into desperate debtes, and now in steede of blew coates to waite at my table, haue a couple of Sergeants to attend me through y^e stretes.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4 Two or three sturdie Plow men (such as his swines fac't blue-coate was).

1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. G4 This counterfeit Blew-coate, running in all haste for his masters cloake bag.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 46 Draw men..Blew Coats to Tawny Coats.

1674 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1905) III. 180 Quhen the blewcoatis wer put out by the toune.

1787 Adventures J. Corncob xiv. 138 One cursee hurricane to be sure,..but good little macky blue-coat, never be afraid.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iv. 110 Yet I hope to see him ride upon his moyle, with a foot-cloth, and have his two blue-coats after him.

b. An agent of the authorities, an official; spec. †(a) a beadle (obsolete); (b) a policeman (now chiefly U.S.). Cf. bluebottle n. 2.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > other English officials > wearing blue coat

blue coat1597

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. C2 Olde Ling without musterd, is like a blew coate without a Cognisaunce.

1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. C Carried to places of correction, there wofully tormented by Blew-coates.

1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus v. sig. G4^v Besides the whips of furies are not halfe so terrible as a blew coate.

1737 ‘Alexander the Coppersmith’ Remarks upon City of Corke (title page) Government. Charter, Staple, By-laws, Courts, of law of Bishop, D'oyer hundred, and their Ministers and officers from Mayors down to Blue-coats.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 369/1 I thinks them Chartists are a weak-minded set,..a hundred o' them would run away from one blue-coat.

1875 Chicago Tribune 29 Aug. 5/4 One of the blue coats would attempt to put back the crowd.

1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 153 No cop could think that he was going to get away with pushing his son. And he told the damn bluecoat that..he'd punch him all over the corner.

1988 ‘J. Norst’ Colors vii. 88 Take all you candy-ass bluecoats to hold me down, first.

c. Also with capital initial. A pupil at a blue-coat school: see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil

childOE

blue coat boy1609

blue coat1619

poor child1626

blue boy1649

blue coat girl1695

blue1803

1619 Helpe to Discourse 186 100. Blue coates sing, My friends did mourne, the bels did ring.

a1676 J. Dunton House of Weeping (1682) ii. 289 A vast number of young Blew-Coats (Boys and Girls) singing Psalms and Hymns.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital.

1717 G. Smalridge Twelve Serm. vi. 226 The School for Blue-Coats belonging to the New-Church in Westminster.

1832 T. Hood Comic Ann. (ed. 2) 95 Or, if the Lord Mayor, on an Easter Monday, That wine and bun-day, Proposed to poison all the little Blue-coats.

1890 Atlantic Monthly June 856/2 Beyond, through the centre door of the school itself, also open, I could see all the little Blue Coats going to prayers.

1920 Times 17 Aug. 13/4 He [sc. the author] hopes..to remedy the neglect of these illustrious Bluecoats which he has observed among Christ's Hospital boys.

2003 J. L. Carrell Speckled Monster 437 The Christ's Hospital buildings still exist in Hertford, though the school has moved. The students are still called bluecoats.

d. A soldier wearing a blue coat; spec. a soldier fighting for the Union during the American Civil War (1861–5) (now historical). Also occasionally: †a sailor (obsolete).

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific

Jersey blue1758

shirtman1775

Yorker1776

buckskin1783

Indian fighter1824

blue belly1827

greyback1854

Zouave1860

Zou-Zou1860

greycoat1861

grey1862

Johnny1862

Johnny Reb1862

blue1870

blue coat1885

dogface1932

1642 J. B. Speciall Newes Army at Warwicke sig. A2 The Kings red Regiment of 12. hundred men..were..then abundantly smitten downe by the Orange Coats, and Sir William Constable his blew Coats.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 222 That the fame..could so soon reach Phalaris's ear in his Castle, through his Guard of Blue-coats.

1712 C. Hornby Caveat against Whiggs: 4th Pt. 105 To send over another Swarm of Blue-coats to the Assistance and Support of their kind Allies.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxix. 240 [The Americans and British] paid them..so many dollars and cents for every ‘scalp’ of a ‘red’ or a ‘blue coat’ they could bring in.

1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 159 The admiral..became..gracious and condescending to his brother bluecoats.

1885 C. A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy i. 17 The fall of 1861 Mr. Hale..left for Yankeedom to join the blue coats.

1899 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 48 I found a squad of our bluecoats taking their rest on the chilly pavements of Manila.

1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee v. 112 The warriors turned on them, using their old trade guns upon the Bluecoats and stinging them with arrows.

1997 C. Frazier Cold Mountain 34 It was all over town that Kirk and his bluecoats had already started raiding up near the state line.

3. North American. A coat of a bluish-grey colour that a deer (esp. the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus), acquires in the autumn. Cf. in the blue at blue adj. and n. Phrases 3b.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > (deer defined by) colour

blue coat1852

menil1902

1852 C. W. Webber Romance Nat. Hist. xxiv. 516 The proper time for the first method is about the beginning of September—when the down is off their horns, and they are getting into the ‘blue coat’.

1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 190 The spike-horn was shot just as deer were attaining the ‘blue coat’.

1922 Sat. Evening Post 14 Jan. 72/3 We thought the deer also were in very low flesh, though now it was the time of blue coat.

2005 C. Fergus Hunter's Bk. Days xvi. 155 The deer have long since shed their ruddy summer pelage and replaced it with a slaty gray brown: the thick, insulating ‘blue coat’ that hunters refer to.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as bluecoat army, bluecoat beadle, bluecoat officer, etc.With quot. 1821, cf. bluestocking adj.

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1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. C^v A blewcoate knaue.

1599 E. Topsell Times Lament. xxxvi. 394 How deere wil their daintie fare, their silken suites,..and their blew-coate-hirelings cost them.

1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. D3^v The very blew-coate beadles get their trash, By whips and rods, and the fine firking lash.

a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 115 In Blue-Coat Philosophy.

a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 4 The Blue-coat Infantry.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cix. 125 The blue-coat misses of a coterie.

1912 J. Bradshaw Highway Robbery under Arms 6 Yes, savagely they murdered him, The cowardly Blue Coat imps.

1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee viii. 176 He had told the Bluecoat officers..that he wanted Fort Laramie to be the Teton Sioux trading post.

2009 R. S. Wheeler North Star xx. 162 This was country where one could run into Peoples from many tribes, or white men, or the bluecoat army, or bears or wolves or coyotes.

b. attributive (frequently with capital initials) with the sense ‘of, belonging, or relating to a blue coat school’ (see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2), as blue coat building, blue coat hall, blue coat uniform, etc.

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1699 Tryal Spencer Cowper 10 Did you see some body go through the Blue-coat building about 11 a clock?

1711 London Gaz. No. 4920/3 A General Meeting..will be held at Blue-coat-Hall in Christ's-Hospital.

1735 Brit. Observator 4 Jan. 220/2 Sir Francis Child, President of Christ's Hospital, together with Richard Cheeke, Esq; Treasurer,..are to wait on his Majesty..to present the Blue-Coat-Children.

1789 Trifler No. 32. 408 I..am indebted for my small portion of knowledge to a Blue Coat education.

1896 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 734/2 As a boy he broke the rules of schools of all kinds, including the famous Blue Coat institution.

1974 N. Pevsner Staffordshire 123 The school has two porches with two porcelain bluecoat children.

1986 P. Williams Chetham's ii. 38 Leaving a school which had also been home became even more of a break when the Blue Coat uniform was replaced by a civilian suit.

C2.

blue coat boy n. (frequently with capital initials) a boy who attends a blue coat school: see blue coat school n.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil

childOE

blue coat boy1609

blue coat1619

poor child1626

blue boy1649

blue coat girl1695

blue1803

1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C3 (stage direct.) Enter Iohn i'th hospitall, and a blew-coat boy with him.

1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 258 At 8 years old I was taken away, to be for eleven years together a poor, friendless Blue-coat Boy.

2005 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 7 July 10 For former Blue Coat boy Stephen from Allerton, just being chosen to represent his country as an Olympian was something he'd dreamed of.

blue coat girl n. (frequently with capital initials) a girl who attends a blue coat school: see blue coat school n.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil

childOE

blue coat boy1609

blue coat1619

poor child1626

blue boy1649

blue coat girl1695

blue1803

1695 S. Pepys Let. 20 Sept. (1926) I. 110 Two wealthy citizens are lately dead, and left their estates, one to a Blewcoat-Boy and the other to a Blew-Coat-Girl in Christ's Hospital.

1894 Daily News 30 Mar. 5/1 To many..the notion of a Bluecoat ‘girl’ will be somewhat strange. It appears, nevertheless, that the Hertford establishment now shelters no fewer than 112 scholars of that sex.

1999 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 23 Sept. 8 I was amazed to see a photo of myself and other Blue Coat girls with the matron, Miss Meredith.

Blue Coat Hospital n. (also with lower-case initals) = blue coat school n.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor

hospital1552

charity-school1682

Blue Coat Hospital1700

blue coat school1706

poor school1727

national school1814

industrial school1827

ragged school1843

kitchengarten1877

barrack school1894

1700 in J. Owen Two Short Catechisms (ed. 2) facing title page (advt.) At the Bible in Newgate-street, over against the Blue-Coat Hospital Gate.

1791 Brookes' Gen. Gazetteer (ed. 7) Gaunt's Urcot, a village in Gloucestershire,..now belonging to the blue-coat hospital in Bristol.

1870 (title) Prayers and hymns used in the chapel of the Blue Coat Hospital, Liverpool.

2011 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 16 Aug. 12 The Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital/School has played an important part in the educational life of the city.

blue coat school n. (frequently with capital initials) a charity school at which pupils wear blue coats; spec. Christ's Hospital, originally situated in Newgate, London, now in Horsham, West Sussex; (later more generally) any charity school; now also in the names of conventional schools, some of which were originally charity schools.Christ's Hospital was established for the education of the poor in 1552. It is well known for its distinctive uniform of blue coats fastened at the waist with a belt, worn with bright yellow stockings. Many similar schools followed Christ's Hospital, often replicating its uniform. Most such schools have now abandoned the blue coats, but these are retained by Christ's Hospital.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor

hospital1552

charity-school1682

Blue Coat Hospital1700

blue coat school1706

poor school1727

national school1814

industrial school1827

ragged school1843

kitchengarten1877

barrack school1894

1706 Acct. Charity-schools Eng., Wales, & Ireland 11 The Blue-coat School [in Westminster],..was set up 18 Years last Lady-Day.

1817 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Feb. (1976) V. 170 One of his boys was to be a candidate for the Blue coat School.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 559 The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute.

1967 L. Fox Country Gram. School x. 76 There were two other endowed schools in Ashby for the poor, namely the Blue Coat and the Green Coat schools.

2010 Racing Post (Nexis) 15 Aug. 15 Kyle is..a keen West Ham fan and a pupil at the private Reading Blue Coat school in Sonning.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blue coat
释义	blue coatn. Brit. /ˈbluː kəʊt/, U.S. /ˈblu ˌkoʊt/ Forms: see blue adj. and n. and coat n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., coat n. Etymology: < blue adj. + coat n. Compare blue-coated adj. 1. A blue coat as worn by servants, tradesmen, and others of low social status; a similar coat worn by a person provided for at a charitable institution; esp. one worn by a pupil at a blue-coat school (see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > worn by specific people fool's coat1566 blue coat1576 fisher's coat1611 matinee jacket1882 matinee coat1899 laboratory coatc1936 1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi viii. f. 43 If..you appeare in presence of the king..you a traine must bring, Your tenaunts are good hansome hines, when badged blew cotes on. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 5 Thou y^t has worne thy selfe & a blewe coate to equall thrydd barenes. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlvii. sig. H10 His Ancient beginning was a blue coat, since a liuery. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 129 Such Worthy Cares as a Reformation of the Hospital-boys Blue Coats. 1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) 423 The Boys and Girls being cloathed in Blue Coats,..and provided with all suitable Necessaries. a1765 C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) V. 1042 The 200l. that he gave was to cloath the poor annually, three men and three women, in blue coats, at Christmas, and the rest to the poor. 1834 Corporate Offices & Charitable Funds 470 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 460) XLV. 1 To 12 almsmen every second year a blue coat. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. viii. 160 The ‘road-sider’ always wears a blue coat, gilt buttons, and striped kerseymeres. 1892 H. L. Wayland Charles H. Spurgeon x. 161 The children are not institutionalized. They do not wear an antique outlandish garb, like the boys whose blue coats..mark them out in the streets of London. 1902 W. W. Moore 13 Sept. in Year in Europe (1905) xvii. 141 The famous charity school, where the boys wear blue coats, is called ‘The Blukkit School’. 2005 Sun (Nexis) 24 Sept. The 13-year-olds attend Christ's Hospital,..where the old-fashioned uniform includes full-length blue coats, knee-length breeches and long yellow socks. 2. Now usually in form bluecoat. A person whose uniform includes or is distinguished by a blue coat. †a. A person of low social status; esp. a servant. Also (Scottish): a licensed beggar; = blue gown n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar gaberlunzie1508 proctor1529 blue coat1583 blue gown1590 badgeman1668 beadsman1793 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person swaina1150 ladc1300 loon1535 blue coat1583 gaffer1589 snake1590 meaner1596 frock1612 groundling1630 frock-man1657 coolie1803 simple1824 yellow dog1862 Harry1874 smock-frock1898 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge drivelc1225 meniala1387 druggarc1500 drudgea1513 kitchen wencha1556 coal carrier1567 droy1570 packhorse?1577 droil1579 blue coat1583 sumpter1587 mill-horse1602 subsizar1602 jackal1649 mediastine1658 slut1664 hack1699 scrub1709 Gibeonite1798 the lion's provider1808 slush1825 Slave of the Lampc1840 runabout1893 lobby-gow1906 squidge1907 dogsbody1922 legman1939 shit-kicker1950 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. X.iv^v I haue..run my selfe into desperate debtes, and now in steede of blew coates to waite at my table, haue a couple of Sergeants to attend me through y^e stretes. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4 Two or three sturdie Plow men (such as his swines fac't blue-coate was). 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. G4 This counterfeit Blew-coate, running in all haste for his masters cloake bag. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 46 Draw men..Blew Coats to Tawny Coats. View more context for this quotation 1674 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1905) III. 180 Quhen the blewcoatis wer put out by the toune. 1787 Adventures J. Corncob xiv. 138 One cursee hurricane to be sure,..but good little macky blue-coat, never be afraid. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iv. 110 Yet I hope to see him ride upon his moyle, with a foot-cloth, and have his two blue-coats after him. b. An agent of the authorities, an official; spec. †(a) a beadle (obsolete); (b) a policeman (now chiefly U.S.). Cf. bluebottle n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > other English officials > wearing blue coat blue coat1597 society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1597 N. Breton Wits Trenchmour sig. C2 Olde Ling without musterd, is like a blew coate without a Cognisaunce. 1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. C Carried to places of correction, there wofully tormented by Blew-coates. 1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus v. sig. G4^v Besides the whips of furies are not halfe so terrible as a blew coate. 1737 ‘Alexander the Coppersmith’ Remarks upon City of Corke (title page) Government. Charter, Staple, By-laws, Courts, of law of Bishop, D'oyer hundred, and their Ministers and officers from Mayors down to Blue-coats. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 369/1 I thinks them Chartists are a weak-minded set,..a hundred o' them would run away from one blue-coat. 1875 Chicago Tribune 29 Aug. 5/4 One of the blue coats would attempt to put back the crowd. 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 153 No cop could think that he was going to get away with pushing his son. And he told the damn bluecoat that..he'd punch him all over the corner. 1988 ‘J. Norst’ Colors vii. 88 Take all you candy-ass bluecoats to hold me down, first. c. Also with capital initial. A pupil at a blue-coat school: see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil childOE blue coat boy1609 blue coat1619 poor child1626 blue boy1649 blue coat girl1695 blue1803 1619 Helpe to Discourse 186 100. Blue coates sing, My friends did mourne, the bels did ring. a1676 J. Dunton House of Weeping (1682) ii. 289 A vast number of young Blew-Coats (Boys and Girls) singing Psalms and Hymns. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 164 Among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital. 1717 G. Smalridge Twelve Serm. vi. 226 The School for Blue-Coats belonging to the New-Church in Westminster. 1832 T. Hood Comic Ann. (ed. 2) 95 Or, if the Lord Mayor, on an Easter Monday, That wine and bun-day, Proposed to poison all the little Blue-coats. 1890 Atlantic Monthly June 856/2 Beyond, through the centre door of the school itself, also open, I could see all the little Blue Coats going to prayers. 1920 Times 17 Aug. 13/4 He [sc. the author] hopes..to remedy the neglect of these illustrious Bluecoats which he has observed among Christ's Hospital boys. 2003 J. L. Carrell Speckled Monster 437 The Christ's Hospital buildings still exist in Hertford, though the school has moved. The students are still called bluecoats. d. A soldier wearing a blue coat; spec. a soldier fighting for the Union during the American Civil War (1861–5) (now historical). Also occasionally: †a sailor (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific Jersey blue1758 shirtman1775 Yorker1776 buckskin1783 Indian fighter1824 blue belly1827 greyback1854 Zouave1860 Zou-Zou1860 greycoat1861 grey1862 Johnny1862 Johnny Reb1862 blue1870 blue coat1885 dogface1932 1642 J. B. Speciall Newes Army at Warwicke sig. A2 The Kings red Regiment of 12. hundred men..were..then abundantly smitten downe by the Orange Coats, and Sir William Constable his blew Coats. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 222 That the fame..could so soon reach Phalaris's ear in his Castle, through his Guard of Blue-coats. 1712 C. Hornby Caveat against Whiggs: 4th Pt. 105 To send over another Swarm of Blue-coats to the Assistance and Support of their kind Allies. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxix. 240 [The Americans and British] paid them..so many dollars and cents for every ‘scalp’ of a ‘red’ or a ‘blue coat’ they could bring in. 1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 159 The admiral..became..gracious and condescending to his brother bluecoats. 1885 C. A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy i. 17 The fall of 1861 Mr. Hale..left for Yankeedom to join the blue coats. 1899 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly May 48 I found a squad of our bluecoats taking their rest on the chilly pavements of Manila. 1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee v. 112 The warriors turned on them, using their old trade guns upon the Bluecoats and stinging them with arrows. 1997 C. Frazier Cold Mountain 34 It was all over town that Kirk and his bluecoats had already started raiding up near the state line. 3. North American. A coat of a bluish-grey colour that a deer (esp. the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus), acquires in the autumn. Cf. in the blue at blue adj. and n. Phrases 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > (deer defined by) colour blue coat1852 menil1902 1852 C. W. Webber Romance Nat. Hist. xxiv. 516 The proper time for the first method is about the beginning of September—when the down is off their horns, and they are getting into the ‘blue coat’. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 190 The spike-horn was shot just as deer were attaining the ‘blue coat’. 1922 Sat. Evening Post 14 Jan. 72/3 We thought the deer also were in very low flesh, though now it was the time of blue coat. 2005 C. Fergus Hunter's Bk. Days xvi. 155 The deer have long since shed their ruddy summer pelage and replaced it with a slaty gray brown: the thick, insulating ‘blue coat’ that hunters refer to. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as bluecoat army, bluecoat beadle, bluecoat officer, etc.With quot. 1821, cf. bluestocking adj. ΚΠ 1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel sig. C^v A blewcoate knaue. 1599 E. Topsell Times Lament. xxxvi. 394 How deere wil their daintie fare, their silken suites,..and their blew-coate-hirelings cost them. 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. D3^v The very blew-coate beadles get their trash, By whips and rods, and the fine firking lash. a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 115 In Blue-Coat Philosophy. a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 4 The Blue-coat Infantry. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cix. 125 The blue-coat misses of a coterie. 1912 J. Bradshaw Highway Robbery under Arms 6 Yes, savagely they murdered him, The cowardly Blue Coat imps. 1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee viii. 176 He had told the Bluecoat officers..that he wanted Fort Laramie to be the Teton Sioux trading post. 2009 R. S. Wheeler North Star xx. 162 This was country where one could run into Peoples from many tribes, or white men, or the bluecoat army, or bears or wolves or coyotes. b. attributive (frequently with capital initials) with the sense ‘of, belonging, or relating to a blue coat school’ (see blue coat school n. at Compounds 2), as blue coat building, blue coat hall, blue coat uniform, etc. ΚΠ 1699 Tryal Spencer Cowper 10 Did you see some body go through the Blue-coat building about 11 a clock? 1711 London Gaz. No. 4920/3 A General Meeting..will be held at Blue-coat-Hall in Christ's-Hospital. 1735 Brit. Observator 4 Jan. 220/2 Sir Francis Child, President of Christ's Hospital, together with Richard Cheeke, Esq; Treasurer,..are to wait on his Majesty..to present the Blue-Coat-Children. 1789 Trifler No. 32. 408 I..am indebted for my small portion of knowledge to a Blue Coat education. 1896 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 734/2 As a boy he broke the rules of schools of all kinds, including the famous Blue Coat institution. 1974 N. Pevsner Staffordshire 123 The school has two porches with two porcelain bluecoat children. 1986 P. Williams Chetham's ii. 38 Leaving a school which had also been home became even more of a break when the Blue Coat uniform was replaced by a civilian suit. C2. blue coat boy n. (frequently with capital initials) a boy who attends a blue coat school: see blue coat school n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil childOE blue coat boy1609 blue coat1619 poor child1626 blue boy1649 blue coat girl1695 blue1803 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C3 (stage direct.) Enter Iohn i'th hospitall, and a blew-coat boy with him. 1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 258 At 8 years old I was taken away, to be for eleven years together a poor, friendless Blue-coat Boy. 2005 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 7 July 10 For former Blue Coat boy Stephen from Allerton, just being chosen to represent his country as an Olympian was something he'd dreamed of. blue coat girl n. (frequently with capital initials) a girl who attends a blue coat school: see blue coat school n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil childOE blue coat boy1609 blue coat1619 poor child1626 blue boy1649 blue coat girl1695 blue1803 1695 S. Pepys Let. 20 Sept. (1926) I. 110 Two wealthy citizens are lately dead, and left their estates, one to a Blewcoat-Boy and the other to a Blew-Coat-Girl in Christ's Hospital. 1894 Daily News 30 Mar. 5/1 To many..the notion of a Bluecoat ‘girl’ will be somewhat strange. It appears, nevertheless, that the Hertford establishment now shelters no fewer than 112 scholars of that sex. 1999 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 23 Sept. 8 I was amazed to see a photo of myself and other Blue Coat girls with the matron, Miss Meredith. Blue Coat Hospital n. (also with lower-case initals) = blue coat school n.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor hospital1552 charity-school1682 Blue Coat Hospital1700 blue coat school1706 poor school1727 national school1814 industrial school1827 ragged school1843 kitchengarten1877 barrack school1894 1700 in J. Owen Two Short Catechisms (ed. 2) facing title page (advt.) At the Bible in Newgate-street, over against the Blue-Coat Hospital Gate. 1791 Brookes' Gen. Gazetteer (ed. 7) Gaunt's Urcot, a village in Gloucestershire,..now belonging to the blue-coat hospital in Bristol. 1870 (title) Prayers and hymns used in the chapel of the Blue Coat Hospital, Liverpool. 2011 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 16 Aug. 12 The Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital/School has played an important part in the educational life of the city. blue coat school n. (frequently with capital initials) a charity school at which pupils wear blue coats; spec. Christ's Hospital, originally situated in Newgate, London, now in Horsham, West Sussex; (later more generally) any charity school; now also in the names of conventional schools, some of which were originally charity schools.Christ's Hospital was established for the education of the poor in 1552. It is well known for its distinctive uniform of blue coats fastened at the waist with a belt, worn with bright yellow stockings. Many similar schools followed Christ's Hospital, often replicating its uniform. Most such schools have now abandoned the blue coats, but these are retained by Christ's Hospital. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor hospital1552 charity-school1682 Blue Coat Hospital1700 blue coat school1706 poor school1727 national school1814 industrial school1827 ragged school1843 kitchengarten1877 barrack school1894 1706 Acct. Charity-schools Eng., Wales, & Ireland 11 The Blue-coat School [in Westminster],..was set up 18 Years last Lady-Day. 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Feb. (1976) V. 170 One of his boys was to be a candidate for the Blue coat School. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 559 The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute. 1967 L. Fox Country Gram. School x. 76 There were two other endowed schools in Ashby for the poor, namely the Blue Coat and the Green Coat schools. 2010 Racing Post (Nexis) 15 Aug. 15 Kyle is..a keen West Ham fan and a pupil at the private Reading Blue Coat school in Sonning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1576
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