surcoat

No one shall be represented with a fringe to his surcoat, unless he be of the rank of Baron.

But on this particular morning Raymond, awaiting the jailer's footsteps, carefully removed his surcoat and hid behind the door.

There was a garment in this reign which was the keynote of costume at the time, and this was the surcoat.

There can be very little doubt that arms themselves are older than the fact of the surcoat or the term "coat of arms."