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

An old name for a coatee, or skirted jacket.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Each of us had a coatee, made of common cloth; but we all carried hunting-shirts, to be worn as soon as we entered the woods.

From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore

Not a coatee, which soldiers wear Button’d up high about the throat, But easy, flowing, debonair— In short a civil long-tail’d Coat.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 by Various

No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some pretensions to being useful.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various