different between redingot vs redingote

English

Etymology

French, corrupted from English riding coat.

Noun

redingot (plural redingots)

1. A long, plain, double-breasted outdoor coat for women.

English

Etymology

From French redingote, itself from English riding-coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?????t/

Noun

redingote (plural redingotes)

1. (historical) A long coat or greatcoat for men. [from 18th c.]
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 140:

     In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte.

   • 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 199:

     I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartolom?j Sme?ka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch-chain draped over it […]

2. A women's dress coat or long fitted coat with a flared skirt. [from 19th c.]
   • 1955, ‘Farewell with Fanfare’, Time, 25 Mar 1955:

     Mrs. Hobby, dressed in a brown and white silk redingote, blinked back tears as the President recalled their first meeting in London in 1942, when Oveta was commander of the WAAC (later the WAC).

French

Etymology

Hobson-Jobson of English riding-coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d??.??t/

Noun

redingote f (plural redingotes)

1. frock coat

Further reading

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