greatcoat
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- greatcoated adjective
Etymology
Origin of greatcoat
Example Sentences
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The king, wearing the uniform of the Marshal of the Royal Air Force, including a grey greatcoat against the cold, laid a wreath featuring 41 open-style fabric poppies.
From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2023
The two minutes' silence that falls after Big Ben sounds sees faces long with memory and grief, none more so than the King, a single poppy blazing out from the blue-grey lapel of his greatcoat.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023
Not to mention Sergio Hudson’s way with proportion, seen in tone-on-tone red trousers with just a bit of flare, matching turtleneck, sweeping greatcoat and belt with a big circular gold buckle.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021
Along with everyone else, the Coens had admired Thewlis’s performance as Johnny, the acerbic prophet of doom in Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked, in which he stalked the streets of London in an undertaker’s greatcoat.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2017
Maddie had her man’s greatcoat on and was tying it up around her shins so it wouldn’t catch in the bicycle chain.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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