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Bluecoat

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code. British, attributive, often

    "This was a bluecoat school in my day."

  2. 2
    a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) wordnet
  3. 3
    A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. US

    "The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry."

  4. 4
    A policeman. dated

    "Holonym: thin blue line"

Etymology

From blue + coat.

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