duffel coat

• duffle coat

After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel coats were made.

duffel coat (plural duffel coats)

1. A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

• duffel bag

• → French: duffel coat, duffel-coat, duffle-coat

• duffle coat

duffel coat m (plural duffel coats)

1. alternative spelling of duffel-coat