coatee
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of coatee
1750–60, formation modeled on goatee
Example Sentences
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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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The 4th wore blue coatees and overalls, with scarlet facings, shakos and plumes of horse-hair; and the 13th Light Dragoons were attired in blue coatees and buff facings, shako, and horse-hair 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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