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coat-trailings

coat-trailings is the plural of coat-trailing.

Meaning of coat-trailing

Noun

coat-trailing (countable and uncountable, plural coat-trailings)

  1. (UK) A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.
    • The Peshawar agent will often be an ambitious man "in a hurry," in which case he will push the forward policy, and amongst future Viceroys Aucklands, Lyttons, Lansdownes, and Elgins will be more frequent than Lawrences and Curzons, and then we shall have complications, coat-trailings, warlike...1904, Septimus Smet Thorburn, The Punjab in Peace and War, page 348

Questions about coat-trailings

What is coat-trailings the plural of?
Coat-trailings is the plural of coat-trailing.

Words near coat-trailings in the dictionary

  1. coat-tail
  2. coat-tailed
  3. coat-tailing
  4. coat-tails
  5. coat-trailing
  6. coat-trailings
  7. coatability
  8. coatable
  9. Coatbridge
  10. coatbuttons
  11. coatdress

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