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coat

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Navy pea coat
 
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Etymology

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From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

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Noun

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coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

  1. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
    • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
      It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
    • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
      Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  2. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
    fresh coat of paint
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
  4. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp
    When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
  5. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
  6. (obsolete) A petticoat.
  7. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  8. A coat of arms.Wp
  9. A coat card.

Derived terms

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|buffy coat |coathook, coat hook |coat of arms |covert-coat |ducking coat |feathercoat |greatcoat|coat money|frock-coat|powder-coat|rain-coat|riding coat|short-coat|sport coat|sports coat|teddy bear coat|teddy coat |overcoat|base coat|blanket-coat|body coat|box coat|bridge coat|buff coat|candy-coat|car coat|claw-hammer coat|clawhammer coat|coat armour|coat check|coat hanger|coat link|coat of mail|coat rack|coat stand|coat trailing|coat tree|coat-hanger|coat-rack|coat-stand|coat-trailing|convoy coat|cut one's coat according to one's cloth|dip coat|dip-coat|Doobon coat|dress coat|duffel coat|duffle coat|fever coat|frock coat|fur coat|glaze coat|house-coat|I'll get my coat|Jacob's coat|lab coat|laboratory coat|leather-coat|long-coat|M.B. coat|mackinaw coat|mast coat|matinee coat|matinée coat|mink coat|Monty coat|morning coat|parge coat|pea coat|pick a hole in someone's coat|pilot coat|Prince Albert coat|red coat|sail coat|seed coat|setting coat|skim coat|skim-coat|Spanish coat|sugar coat|sugar-coat|swagger coat|trench coat|turn coat|turn one's coat|turn-coat|white coat|white coat effect|white coat high blood pressure|white coat hypertension|white coat rule|white coat syndrome|white-coat hypertension|winter coat|wooden coat|wylie-coat|coatgirl|coatroom}}

Descendants

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  • Sranan Tongo: koto
  • → Swahili: koti
  • (South Wales) Welsh: cot
  • (North Wales) Welsh: côt

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
    The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
    • 2021 January 13, “Fleet News: Final Avanti West Coast Super Voyager refurbished”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 23:
      Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish.
  2. (transitive) To cover like a coat.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To clothe.

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Pipil

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nahuan *koːwa-. Compare Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”).

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard) IPA(key): /ˈku(w)at/
  • (Witzapan) IPA(key): /ˈɡu(w)at/
  • (Tacuba) IPA(key): /ˈkʷat/

Noun

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coat (plural cohcoat)

  1. snake
    Cuaconi peuhqui ne coat mocuehcueloa
    Then the snake started to curl up

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Noun

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coat

  1. Alternative form of cooat
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Mee coat is ee-runt.
      My coat is torn.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 65
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