coat dress
Britishnoun
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a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
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formerly, a dress tailored and styled like a coat
Example Sentences
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Model Luna Lovebad walked out in a baby pink bubble coat dress featuring motifs that drew on what is maybe the most famous lowrider in the city: the Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Chevy Impala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
Case in point: the tailored coat dress Bella Hadid wore to the 2017 Council of Fashion Designers of America awards.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
In January, she requested that Trump submit a DNA sample to determine whether his genetic material is on the black coat dress she said she was wearing during the alleged assault.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2020
According to the AP, Carroll’s lawyer had the coat dress tested in a lab after Carroll filed the defamation suit.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2020
I have reserved it clean on purpose; and I think Aunt Sophia had best wear her last new coat dress, with the lace trimming.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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