coat dress
Britishnoun
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a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
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formerly, a dress tailored and styled like a coat
Example Sentences
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The King - standing on the left - is wearing a dark blue and grey tie, while the Queen is wearing a white and beige coat dress.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
Model Luna Lovebad walked out in a baby pink bubble coat dress featuring motifs that drew on what is maybe the most famous lowrider in the city: the Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Chevy Impala.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023
Case in point: the tailored coat dress Bella Hadid wore to the 2017 Council of Fashion Designers of America awards.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2021
The 95-year-old monarch, who has spent much of the pandemic at Windsor Castle, just west of London, wore a bright orange coat dress and matching hat at Thursday’s event.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2021
One spring, she, in some way, was persuaded by another girl to have her coat, dress and hat all in browns that harmonized.
From The Girl in Her Teens by Slattery, Margaret
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