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 had turned up the collar of his British warm.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

"Well, anyhow, no one could tell that this was once a British warm."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 by Various

When the colonel and Major Bullivant went off, up rode Beadle in an extraordinary get-up: British warm, gum-boots, and pyjamas.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

Wrapping my knees in my British warm, I disposed myself to rest.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

Then he looked sadly at my soiled tunic and my British warm and asked if I had carried them far.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 by Various