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short-coat

short-coat noun: the shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.

Noun

short-coat (plural short-coats)

  1. (historical, plural) The shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.

Verb

short-coat (third-person singular simple present short-coats, present participle short-coating, simple past and past participle short-coated)

  1. (transitive) To dress in short-coats.
    • Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated.1885, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 1, page 85

Forms of short-coat

Noun
pluralshort-coats
Verb
third-person singular presentshort-coats
present participleshort-coating
past participleshort-coated
pastshort-coated

Questions about short-coat

What does short-coat mean?
Short-coat means the shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.
What part of speech is short-coat?
Short-coat can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of short-coat?
The plural of short-coat is short-coats.

Words near short-coat in the dictionary

  1. short-circuit operators
  2. short-circuited
  3. short-circuiter
  4. short-circuiting
  5. short-circuits
  6. short-coat
  7. short-coated
  8. short-coating
  9. short-coats
  10. short-corner
  11. short-cut

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