coatee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coatee
1750–60, formation modeled on goatee
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Drayson, A.W.
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
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 Sheldon, Charles Mills
No coatee nor jacket can be warm enough for the British service, exposed as the men are to all varieties of climate; and infinitely more to cold and wet than to sunshine.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
