overcoat has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ noun ] (clothing) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was , a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffy colored fedora .

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

He had_on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat , and his brief_case lay on the bench .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

Hatless , in an overcoat of rough blue wool , I was given a proud farewell by my mother and father , and I set_out into the strangely still streets of Brooklyn .

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[ noun ] an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish)

Synonyms

overcoating

Related terms

coating

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