coatee

American  

[koh-tee] / koʊˈti /

noun

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

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coatee British  

/ kəʊˈtiː, ˈkəʊtiː /

noun

1. a short coat, esp for a baby

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Etymology

Origin of coatee

1750–60, formation modeled on goatee

Example Sentences

With his strange attire,—he was dressed in a tight-fitting, dark-blue blouse or coatee, a kind of knitted jacket,—he was, as may be supposed, stared at in Drottning-gatan.

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They wore coatees, and white belts, and little white pompons tipped with red; pompons stand the wind and weather much better than tall feathers.

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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.

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The young gentlemen were dressed also in the French mode; that is, in elaborately embroidered coatees, and richly wrought frills.

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Single-breasted our coatee—and we are in shorts.

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