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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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
Wearing an emerald green coat dress, she stood amid rows of empty desks.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2020
According to the AP, Carroll’s lawyer had the coat dress tested in a lab after Carroll filed the defamation suit.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2020
“And there’s this beautiful Brunello Cucinelli coat dress that delivers a lot of drama in head-to-toe white, and is accented with a romantic kimono belt; It feels powerful yet soft.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019
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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