coatee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coatee
1750–60, formation modeled on goatee
Example Sentences
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There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
For the sake of illustration, I may state that the 17th Lancers wore a blue coatee and trousers with white facings, and a square-topped shako with black plume.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by A.W. Drayson
No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some pretensions to being useful.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
An old name for a coatee, or skirted jacket.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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