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rain-coat

rain-coat is the archaic form of raincoat.

Meaning of raincoat

Noun

raincoat (plural raincoats)

  1. A waterproof coat to be worn in the rain; (loosely) any coat or jacket with this purpose.
    • After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch.1987, Sir Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat
  2. (slang) A condom.
    • Moe said he'll go first, I said I'll take next / Here, take this raincoat and practice safe sex!1993, “Tearz”, in Enter the Wu-Tang, performed by Wu-Tang Clan

Forms of rain-coat

pluralrain-coats

Questions about rain-coat

What is rain-coat the archaic form of?
Rain-coat is the archaic form of raincoat.

Words near rain-coat in the dictionary

  1. rain-checked
  2. rain-checking
  3. rain-checks
  4. rain-cheque
  5. rain-cheques
  6. rain-coat
  7. rain-coats
  8. rain-free
  9. rain-slickened
  10. rain-soaked
  11. rain-tree

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rain-coat (page history and authors); raincoat (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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