dust coat

British  

noun

1. US name: duster. a loose lightweight coat worn for early open motor-car riding

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dust coat

On the shelves in the American Corner at the university library, thick layers of dust coat copies of “GMAT for Dummies” and “Exploring Corporate Strategy.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011

A young lady, gloved and hatted, with a dust coat on, is sitting in the window-seat with her body twisted to enable her to look out at the view.

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Treadwell greeted her hostess and sat languidly down, taking off, as she did so, her long dust coat and displaying an exquisite gown of pale violet.

From A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

I looked hard at the man in the long linen dust coat and tourist cap who sat alone in the car; then my eyes nearly popped out of my head.

From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

Dr. Monygham slipped off the window-sill, and, thrusting his hands into the pockets of the long, grey dust coat he was wearing, made a few steps into the room.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

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