coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊt/
ipa: /kəʊt/
note: Indic
ipa: /koːʈ/
homophone: court
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: coats
form: cote
Etymology: From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Senses: examples: text: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
ref: 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
examples: text: fresh coat of paint
text: Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A covering of material, such as paint.
examples: text: Near-synonym: pelt
text: When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
glosses: The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
examples: text: a child in coats
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§148”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A petticoat.
examples: text: Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:
text: She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint:
glosses: The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
examples: text: Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: A coat of arms.
examples: text: Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
ref: 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:
glosses: A coat card.
Derived terms: animal coat
barn coat
base coat
basecoat
becoated
blackcoat
blanket-coat
bluecoat
body coat
box coat
bridge coat
Browncoat
buff coat
buffy coat
candy-coat
car coat
carcoat
chore coat
choroid coat
clawhammer coat
claw-hammer coat
clearcoat
coat armour
coat check
coat color dilution lethal
coatdress
coatee
coatful
coatgirl
coat-hanger
coat hanger
coathook
coat hook
coatigan
coatless
coatlike
coat link
coat money
coat of arms
coat of mail
coatomer
coat rack
coatrack
coat-rack
coatroom
coat-stand
coat stand
coatstand
coattail
coat trailing
coat-trailing
coat tree
convoy coat
covert-coat
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
decoat
dip-coat
dipcoat
dip coat
Doobon coat
dress coat
dresscoat
ducking coat
duffel coat
duffle coat
dustcoat
electrocoat
feathercoat
fever coat
frock coat
frock-coat
fur coat
gelcoat
glaze coat
greatcoat
green coat
green-coat
haircoat
hardcoat
Holy Coat
house-coat
housecoat
I'll get my coat
Jacob's coat
jellycoat
lab coat
laboratory coat
leather-coat
lipcoat
longcoat
long-coat
mackinaw coat
mast coat
matinée coat
matinee coat
maxicoat
M.B. coat
minicoat
mink coat
monocoat
Monty coat
morning coat
multicoat
oilcoat
outercoat
overcoat
parge coat
party coat
patchcoat
pea coat
pick a hole in someone's coat
pilot coat
powder-coat
precoat
Prince Albert coat
puffer coat
raincoat
rain-coat
redcoat
red coat
riding coat
ridingcoat
sail coat
sclerotic coat
seed coat
setting coat
short-coat
skim-coat
skim coat
slipcoat
smallcoat
softcoat
Spanish coat
spincoat
sport coat
sportcoat
sportscoat
sports coat
subcoat
sugar coat
sugarcoat
sugar-coat
suitcoat
swagger coat
tailcoat
teddy bear coat
teddy coat
thincoat
trench coat
turn-coat
turn coat
turncoat
turn one's coat
turnout coat
uncoat
undercoat
waistcoat
watch-coat
whitecoat
white coat
white coat effect
white coat high blood pressure
white coat hypertension
white-coat hypertension
white coat rule
white coat syndrome
winter coat
wolfcoat
wooden coat
wylie-coat