different between overcoat vs paletot

English

Etymology

over- +? coat

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?ko?t/
• Hyphenation: over?coat

Noun

overcoat (plural overcoats)

1. A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

Translations

See also

• balmacaan
• raglan

Verb

overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)

1. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
   • 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications (page 128)

     One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

Anagrams

• evocator

English

Etymology

From French paletot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal?t??/

Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
2. A women’s fitted jacket.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:

     Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

Noun

paletot m (plural paletots)

1. jacket

Descendants

• ? Catalan: paltó
• ? English: paletot
• ? Polish: palto
• ? Spanish: paltó

Further reading

• “paletot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pelotât

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN