coatee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coatee
1750–60, formation modeled on goatee
Example Sentences
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There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Mrs. Fairfield appeared, carrying the boy in his little flannel coatee.
From The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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 David Livingstone
He drew the bill from the pocket of his coatee.
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Charles Mills Sheldon
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 James Fenimore Cooper
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