coat
English
Navy pea coat
Alternative forms
- cote (obsolete)
Etymology
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”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊt
Noun
coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)
- (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 580270828, 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.
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- (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
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- (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.
- (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).
- (obsolete) A petticoat.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§148”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
- a child in coats
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- The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint
- She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- A coat of arms.Wp
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
- Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
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- A coat card.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
Derived terms
- base coat
- blanket-coat
- body coat
- box coat
- bridge coat
- buff coat
- buffy coat
- candy-coat
- car coat
- clawhammer coat
- claw-hammer coat
- coat armour
- coat check
- coatgirl
- coat-hanger
- coat hanger
- coathook, coat hook
- coat link
- coat of arms
- coat of mail
- coat rack
- coat-rack
- coatroom
- coat-stand
- coat stand
- coat-trailing
- coat trailing
- coat tree
- convoy coat
- covert-coat
- cut one's coat according to one's cloth
- dip-coat
- dip coat
- Doobon coat
- dress coat
- ducking coat
- duffel coat
- duffle coat
- feathercoat
- fever coat
- frock coat
- fur coat
- glaze coat
- greatcoat
- house-coat
- I'll get my coat
- Jacob's coat
- lab coat
- laboratory coat
- leather-coat
- long-coat
- mackinaw coat
- mast coat
- matinée coat
- matinee coat
- M.B. coat
- mink coat
- Monty coat
- morning coat
- overcoat
- 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 coat
- turn one's coat
- white coat
- white coat effect
- white coat high blood pressure
- white coat hypertension
- white-coat hypertension
- white coat rule
- white coat syndrome
- winter coat
- wooden coat
- wylie-coat
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: koto
- → Swahili: koti
- (South Wales) Welsh: cot
- (North Wales) Welsh: côt
Translations
outer garment covering the upper torso and arms
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covering of material, such as paint
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fur or feathers
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canvas secured around mast
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Verb
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
- (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.
- (transitive) To cover like a coat.
- (transitive, archaic) To clothe.
Translations
to cover with a coat of some material
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to cover as a coat
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Anagrams
- ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco
Pipil
Etymology
From Proto-Nahuan *koːwa-. Compare Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”).
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈku(w)at/
- (Witzapan) IPA(key): /ˈɡu(w)at/
- (Tacuba) IPA(key): /ˈkʷat/
Noun
coat (plural cohcoat)
- snake
- Cuaconi peuhqui ne coat mocuehcueloa
- Then the snake started to curl up
Derived terms
- acoat (“eel”)
- mazacoat (“boa constrictor”)
- yolcoat (“tapeworm”)
Yola
Noun
coat
- Alternative form of cooat
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Mee coat is ee-runt.
- My coat is torn.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 65