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pea-coated

pea-coated adjective: wearing a pea coat.

Adjective

pea-coated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a pea coat.
    • We had an exquisite from St Mary Hall, a pea-coated Brazenose boatman, a philosophical water-drinker and union-debater from Balliol, and a two bottle man from Christ Church.1843 August, Hawthorne, “A Reading Party in the Long Vacation”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXIV, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh; and […] London, page 153
    • The pea-coated gent at that word made a start, / And looked nervously round at the goods of our mart: “A vest, coat, and trousers, as soon as they’re done, I want, s’il vous plait, Messieurs Moses and Son.1848, “Mr. Smith and Moses”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XIV, London: […] the Punch Office, page 127

Forms of pea-coated

alternative formpeacoated

Origin of pea-coated

From pea coat + -ed.

Questions about pea-coated

What does pea-coated mean?
Pea-coated means wearing a pea coat.
What part of speech is pea-coated?
Pea-coated is an adjective.

Words near pea-coated in the dictionary

  1. pea-brain
  2. pea-brained
  3. pea-brains
  4. pea-cake
  5. pea-cakes
  6. pea-coated
  7. pea-combed
  8. pea-jacketed
  9. pea-knuckle
  10. pea-knuckle war
  11. pea-maggot

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