trench-coated
See also: trenchcoated
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From trench coat + -ed.
Adjective
trench-coated (not comparable)
- Wearing a trench coat.
- 1994 May 27, Kevin Thomas, “Movie Review: Beth B.’s ‘Small Bodies’ a Captivating, Complex Work”, in Los Angeles Times[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 July 2021:
- A trench-coated police detective (Fred Ward) comes to a suburban house to interrogate a single mother (Suzy Amis) on the disappearance of her two young children.
- 1999 April 21, Marc Fisher, “‘Trench Coat’ Mafia Spun Dark Fantasy”, in The Washington Post[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017:
- Maher, too, said athletes at Columbine routinely teased the trench-coated students, muttering "Goth" every time they passed one another in the hallways.
- 1999 October 18, Joseph P. Fried, “Thrillers of Cold War in a Hall of Justice”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
- And nearby is another illustration, a sinister scene of a pistol-wielding character in the foreground and a trench-coated figure behind him under the title "The House on 92d Street."