Short-coat

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes. historical, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    To dress in short-coats. transitive

    "Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated."

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"Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated."

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