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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir

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.

Old Mrs. Fairfield appeared, carrying the boy in his little flannel coatee.

From The Garden Party and Other Stories by Mansfield, Katherine

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.

From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.