overcoat

From over- +‎ coat.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/

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• Hyphenation: over‧coat

overcoat (plural overcoats)

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

   Hyponyms: greatcoat, watchcoat, British warm

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

• overshoes
• topcoat
• undercoat

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• raglan

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

1. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.

   Hyponyms: overpaint, paint over

   • 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.

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