surtout
noun
a man's close-fitting overcoat, especially a frock coat.
surtouts
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pluralof surtout.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Over their shoulders they wore strips of cotton or cloth as suspenders, and their coats were tight-waisted, long-tailed surtouts such as were fashionable in the eighteenth century.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
"One of a jolly company, my lord; but some creatures besides wearing their surtouts within, sport their skeletons without: witness the lobster and turtle, who alive, study their own anatomies."
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Those wooden surtouts he thought well enough for parade, but worse than useless, on a march.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The evil spirits she was acquainted with all went about in dress clothes and surtouts.
From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
There were also gentlemen-farmers, neatly, trimly, and fashionably dressed, in handsome surtouts, and trousers strapped under their boots.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne
