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riding coat

riding coat noun: a garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding.

riding coat: a garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding
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Noun

riding coat (plural riding coats)

  1. A garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding.
    • Who could that be with Mr. Lorry—the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair—who must not be seen?1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
    • There was no mistaking that voice—it was Nicholas Temple's. I heard a laugh and an answer, the gate slammed, and Mr. Temple himself in a long gray riding-coat, booted and spurred, stood before me.1904 May, Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 329

Forms of riding coat

pluralriding coats
alternative formriding-coat
alternative formridingcoat

Questions about riding coat

What does riding coat mean?
Riding coat means a garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding.
What part of speech is riding coat?
Riding coat is a noun.
What is the plural of riding coat?
The plural of riding coat is riding coats.

Words near riding coat in the dictionary

  1. riding boot
  2. riding boots
  3. riding breeches
  4. riding by
  5. riding chaps
  6. riding coat
  7. riding coats
  8. riding committee
  9. riding committees
  10. riding crop
  11. riding crops

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