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
And green is his coatee; And for Old Sir Peter Laurie I'd lay me doun and dee.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by Livingstone, David
At this time a tall, lathy gentleman came in, wearing a most original cut coatee.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
He drew the bill from the pocket of his coatee.
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Sheldon, Charles Mills
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