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coat trailing

coat trailing is the alternative form 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

Forms of coat trailing

pluralcoat trailings

Questions about coat trailing

What is coat trailing the alternative form of?
Coat trailing is the alternative form of coat-trailing.

Words near coat trailing in the dictionary

  1. coat of mail
  2. coat rack
  3. coat racks
  4. coat stand
  5. coat stands
  6. coat trailing
  7. coat trailings
  8. coat tree
  9. coat trees
  10. coat up
  11. coat-hanger

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