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greycoat

greycoat is the alternative spelling of graycoat.

Meaning of graycoat

Noun

graycoat (plural graycoats)

  1. (US, colloquial, historical) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War.
    Synonyms:
    grayback, greyback
    Antonyms:
    bluecoat, bluebelly

Forms of greycoat

pluralgreycoats

Origin of greycoat

From grey + coat.

Questions about greycoat

What is greycoat the alternative spelling of?
Greycoat is the alternative spelling of graycoat.

Words near greycoat in the dictionary

  1. greybeards
  2. greyboard
  3. greybodies
  4. greybody
  5. greycing
  6. greycoat
  7. greyed
  8. greyed out
  9. greyen
  10. greyened
  11. greyening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: greycoat (page history and authors); graycoat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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