British warm

American  

noun

1. a double-breasted overcoat of military cut.

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British warm British  

noun

1. an army officer's short thick overcoat

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Example Sentences

He managed a joke with a Obama over the joys of British warm beer after Obama gave him a Goose Island beer from his native Chicago, while Cameron gave Obama a bottle of Hobgoblin, which is made in his constituency in Oxfordshire.

From The Guardian

My own costume consisted of an old and thin British warm over either a thin shirt or vest with old riding breeches and puttees.

From Project Gutenberg

His senior subaltern was wearing a "British warm," the skirt of which had been riddled by machine-gun bullets, and a sergeant was to come out in orders that evening as an officer to take the remaining platoon.

From Project Gutenberg

Then I pulled my British Warm over me and muffled my head and ears in it to escape the regularly-repeated roar of the 9.2.

From Project Gutenberg

At half-past seven I hauled myself out of my valise and sallied forth into the courtyard, clad in a British Warm, pyjamas, and gum-boots, to make my toilet.

From Project Gutenberg