coatee

American  

[koh-tee] / koʊˈti /

noun

1. a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.

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coatee British  

/ ˈkəʊtiː, kəʊˈtiː /

noun

1. a short coat, esp for a baby

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Etymology

Origin of coatee

1750–60, formation modeled on goatee

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Example Sentences

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coatee

There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each of us had a coatee, made of common cloth; but we all carried hunting-shirts, to be worn as soon as we entered the woods.

From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper

The man and his wife expressed such sympathy that I did not hesitate to say: 'I want to get rid of my coatee, and of this cloak.

From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Charles Mills Sheldon

Not a coatee, which soldiers wear Button’d up high about the throat, But easy, flowing, debonair— In short a civil long-tail’d Coat.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 by Various

The knees a trifle stooping, And the widest waist, remember, takes the prize; When motoring or shopping The coatee must be flopping Through a belt that's sagging downward to the thighs.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

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