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coatee

coatee noun: a coat with short flaps.

Noun

coatee (plural coatees)

  1. A coat with short flaps.
    • There came the farmer on his plough-horse, in his coarse striped breeches, blue homespun coatee, and broadbrimmed hat.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter V, page 237
    • The latter had just bucked on his sword, and, in spite of the heat, buttoned up his undress coatee to the chin, ready for the short spell of drill which he knew would take place before the officers dined; […]1883, G[eorge] Manville Fenn, “On Board the ‘Startler’”, in Middy and Ensign: Or The Jungle Station: A Tale of the Malay Peninsula, London: Griffith & Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), […]...

Forms of coatee

pluralcoatees

Origin of coatee

From coat + -ee.

Questions about coatee

What does coatee mean?
Coatee means a coat with short flaps.
What part of speech is coatee?
Coatee is a noun.
What is the plural of coatee?
The plural of coatee is coatees.

Words near coatee in the dictionary

  1. coated felt sheet
  2. coated felt sheets
  3. coated paper
  4. coated papers
  5. coated up
  6. coatee
  7. coatees
  8. Coatepeque
  9. coater
  10. coaters
  11. coates

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