greatcoat
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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
Members of Metallica, hired by Mr. O’Shea as the new faces of the label, sat in the front row at the show, which culminated with a full-length chinchilla greatcoat right out of “Shaft.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2016
A Chronicler in a dusty bowler and rumpled greatcoat writes it all down.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2016
Far away, in the busy multitude, I saw a flash of red hair, the conspicuous line of muffled throat and black greatcoat.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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