Etymology
Origin of overcoating
Example Sentences
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Then I spit on it a few times to give it a frozen overcoating.
From Literature
Some of the fancy overcoatings are to be duplicated.
From Project Gutenberg
Examine different fabrics and classify them into either suitings, overcoatings, trouserings, etc.
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Shetlands—Very shaggy overcoatings, named from the Shetland pony, the coat of which it is supposed to imitate in appearance.
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It is found in the finest of silk and worsted fabrics for ladies’ wear, also in linings, mittens, and fine cloaking and overcoating.
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