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long-coat

long-coat noun: a long overcoat.

Noun

long-coat (plural long-coats)

  1. A long overcoat.
    • Male religious specialists also wear a somewhat larger long-coat when performing religious ceremonies. This long-coat is dark blue or black and relatively plain.2002, Michael C. Howard, Kim Be Howard, Textiles of the Daic Peoples of Vietnam, →ISBN, page 35
    • A figure dressed in a leather long-coat, goggles covering his eyes, walked past their car, saw Henry, and tipped his leather hat as he continued on toward the lake where a small complex of buildings serviced two long docks and a dozen moored boats.2011, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF, →ISBN
  2. A long-haired variety of a breed.
    • It is expected that half of such females will contain recessive the character long-coat, and that half will be free from it, i. e., will produce only short-haired young.1894, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2724, page 67
    • The long-coat Chihuahua is somewhat different from other long-coat dogs.1998, Beverly Pisano, Chihuahuas, →ISBN, page 20

Examples of long-coat in a sentence

  • Hanging at the tent's entrance was his long-coat; he hung it there to remind himself, and others, of who they were dealing with.2012, Nick Lake, In Darkness, →ISBN, page 273:
  • But there she was: a long-coat Shepherd.2009, Barrie Hawkins, Twenty Wagging Tales: Our Year of Rehoming Orphaned Dogs, →ISBN:

Forms of long-coat

plurallong-coats

Questions about long-coat

What does long-coat mean?
Long-coat means a long overcoat.
How do you use long-coat in a sentence?
Hanging at the tent's entrance was his long-coat; he hung it there to remind himself, and others, of who they were dealing with.
What part of speech is long-coat?
Long-coat is a noun.
What is the plural of long-coat?
The plural of long-coat is long-coats.

Words near long-coat in the dictionary

  1. long-billed dowitchers
  2. long-billed marsh wren
  3. long-bonneted
  4. long-burning
  5. long-chain
  6. long-coat
  7. long-coats
  8. long-crested jay
  9. long-crested jays
  10. long-cripple
  11. long-cripples

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