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coatless

American  
[koht-lis] / ˈkoʊt lɪs /

adjective

  1. without a coat or other outerwear.

  2. without a coat of arms.


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Yet Fetterman showed up coatless, in only a hoodie, and wearing shorts.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

Time has not dimmed memories of a snowbound capital, and a coatless JFK braving both subfreezing temperatures and a seemingly endless invocation delivered by Boston’s Richard Cardinal Cushing.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2020

Mr. Fusco was coatless and hatless as he addressed the crowd and the temperature hung a notch or two above freezing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015

Many of them have the look that I imagine my father had when he showed up, coatless, at the front door of the chemistry building at IIT in 1956.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2012

Estraven stood waiting for me, bare-headed and coatless in the cold, watching that small secret ceaseless descent of snow and seeds in the night.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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