whitecoat

[ hwahyt-koht, wahyt- ]

/ ˈʰwaɪtˌkoʊt, ˈwaɪt- /

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noun

a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.

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Origin of whitecoat

First recorded in 1545–55; white + coat

Words nearby whitecoat

white chocolate, “White Christmas”, white cloud, white clover, white coal, whitecoat, white-coat hypertension, white cockatoo, white-collar, white-collar crime, white corpuscle

How to use whitecoat in a sentence

Here and there was an old dog hood on a hummock; and there and here were a harp and a whitecoat on a flat pan.
Billy Topsail, M.D.|Norman Duncan