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

Mr. Washburn took charge of the now very sleepy Delsarte, who declaimed a sepulchral bonsoir and disappeared, his redingote waving in the air.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)

The two men dismounted and in their turn led their horses into the yard: at sight of them the man in the grey redingote seemed to wake from his sleep.

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness