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

And then let him institute a new order, entitled "L'Ordre Imp�rial de la Redingote grise," or "L'Ordre indomptable des Bras crois�s," and accord to every man the right of admission to it, with the honour to boot of having an eagle embroidered on the breast of his coat if he conducted himself gallantly and like a Frenchman in the field of battle, and we should soon find the Porte St. Martin as quiet as the Autocrat's dressing-room at St. Petersburg.

From Project Gutenberg

Instead of causing the eye to turn away as it 11 does from some faithful portraitures of modern costume with positive disgust, this chapeau � trois cornes, and the well-known loose redingote, have that air of picturesque truth in them which is sure to please the taste even where it does not touch the heart.

From Project Gutenberg

Donna Karan A pinstriped suit with a split-front skirt, left; and a calf-hair redingote.

From New York Times

Redingote, red′ing-gōt, n. a double-breasted outer coat with long full skirts, worn by men, also a similar outer garment for women.

From Project Gutenberg