Greatcoat

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy overcoat.

    "The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast."

  2. 2
    a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter wordnet

Example

More examples

"The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast."

Etymology

From great + coat.

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