overcoating

[ oh-ver-koh-ting ]

noun

1. material for overcoats.
2. overcoat ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of overcoating¹

First recorded in 1885–90; overcoat + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Then I spit on it a few times to give it a frozen overcoating.

From Literature

Some of the fancy overcoatings are to be duplicated.

From Project Gutenberg

Examine different fabrics and classify them into either suitings, overcoatings, trouserings, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

Shetlands—Very shaggy overcoatings, named from the Shetland pony, the coat of which it is supposed to imitate in appearance.

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It is found in the finest of silk and worsted fabrics for ladies’ wear, also in linings, mittens, and fine cloaking and overcoating.

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