redingote

American  

[red-ing-goht] / ˈrɛd ɪŋˌgoʊt /

noun

1. a dress or lightweight coat, usually belted, open along the entire front to reveal a dress or petticoat worn underneath it.

2. a coatdress with a contrasting gore in front.

3. a long, double-breasted overcoat worn by men in the 18th century.

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redingote British  

/ ˈrɛdɪŋˌɡəʊt /

noun

1. a woman's coat with a close-fitting top and a full skirt

2. a man's or woman's full-skirted outer coat of the 18th and 19th centuries

3. a woman's light dress or coat of the 18th century, with an open-fronted skirt, revealing a decorative underskirt

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Etymology

Origin of redingote

1825–35; < French < English riding coat

Example Sentences

Instead, no matter if he was slipping into a chiffon shirt, a fringed jacket or a purple metallic redingote, he was stripping himself bare.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2016

When she reached my door, her dark wool redingote drenched, she looked like a wet beagle, with huge brown eyes.

From New York Times • May 14, 2010

All around the designer map, from Dior to Ralph Lauren, the alternative to the redingote was the so-called bathrobe coat-belted, very long and roomy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a three-quarter view, and represents her wearing her quasi masculine redingote, with broad revers and loosely knotted silk neck-tie.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

After five applications, I managed on the following Wednesday to have returned to me, not all the costumes we had let, but only three of the gowns, the soutane and the redingote.

From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite