Coatee

The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1959)

As if the world were his, he swung into the bar, where he found two yokels listening to the half-drunken lamentations of a middle-aged, plum-cheeked fellow in a shabby blue livery coatee with shabbier gilt buttons; and even while he was giving his order for a glass of mild, and ❋ Oliver Fleming (N/A)

She took with her only what a native woman of good class would take; she wore a faded old blue and white chequered sarong with a white coatee. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1950)

For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some pretensions to being useful. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Wantum coatee," said Mr. Merwin to the sleepy-eyed Oriental who shuffled up with a grunt. ❋ Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher (N/A)

The infantry of our own army -- the successors of those noble fellows that walked across Spain -- have no better covering for their backs than the scanty and useless coatee; in this they parade, and in this they are supposed to fight. ❋ Various (N/A)

Having taken down these notes, Miss Silver sat back in her chair and picked up the pale pink coatee. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1939)

Old Mrs. Fairfield appeared, carrying the boy in his little flannel coatee. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Such inventions as to obligate, to concertize, to questionize, retiracy, savagerous, coatee (a sort of diminutive for coat) and citified appeared in the popular vocabulary and even got into more or less good usage. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

(OLIVIA, _smiling, but with an admonishing look at_ DINAH, _comes up_ R. _and places her coatee on balustrade_.) ❋ Unknown (1919)

A uniform dress was prescribed; in summer a coatee of dark gray mixture, chiefly cotton, decent and cheap, with white pantaloons and waistcoat. ❋ Kemp Plummer (1907)

In his swallow-tailed, brass-buttoned, old-fashioned coatee, Burns seemed a very comic sight to the nearest boys in blue until they found he really meant to join them and that he knew a thing or two of war. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

His Majesty -- a short, stout man with blue eyes and aquiline nose, wearing a lace cocked hat and brown velvet coatee and high boots with spurs -- dismounted not twenty feet from the stage-coach, saying with great animation: ❋ Irving Bacheller (1904)

Their dress, especially that of the younger, amused us by its queer mixture of fashionableness and homeliness, such as gray ribbed stockings and shining paste shoe-buckles, rusty velvet small-clothes and a coatee of blue cloth. ❋ Unknown (1897)

And Tommy, quickly merging artist in woman, slipped on a coatee of dull-green crêpe over her old black taffeta, and taking down her hat with the garland of mignonette from the shelf in her closet, tucked some of the green sprays in her belt, and went down to luncheon. ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

In truth he looked very dignified indeed, standing on the mule trunk, his little legs very wide apart, his little crimson silk trousers very baggy, his little green brocade waistcoat buttoned tight over his little fat body, and, trailing from his shoulders in great stiff folds, his father's state cloth-of-gold coatee embroidered with seed pearls. ❋ Flora Annie Steel (1888)

One gray cloth coatee; one gray cloth riding - jacket; one regulation great-coat; two pairs of gray cloth pantaloons, for winter; six pairs of drilling pantaloons for summer; one fatigue-jacket for the encampment; one black dress cap; one forage cap; one black stock; ❋ Flipper, Henry O (1878)