different between coat vs tailcoat
coat
English
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, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *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 ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ko?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)
- (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
- 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.
- 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.
- (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
- (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp
- (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.
- a child in coats
- 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
- 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
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: koto
Translations
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.
- (transitive) To cover like a coat.
- (transitive, archaic) To clothe.
Translations
Anagrams
- ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco
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tailcoat
English
Alternative forms
- tail coat (nonstandard)
Etymology
tail +? coat
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?te?lko?t/
Noun
tailcoat (plural tailcoats)
- A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
- Any coat with similar tails.
Derived terms
- tails
Translations
Anagrams
- coattail
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