British warm

American  

noun

1. a double-breasted overcoat of military cut.

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British warm British  

noun

1. an army officer's short thick overcoat

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Example Sentences

When the colonel and Major Bullivant went off, up rode Beadle in an extraordinary get-up: British warm, gum-boots, and pyjamas.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

The South African pulled a British warm off the vacant seat and reached out for the suit-case.

From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert

When I left her, Celia had two photographs, a British warm and an accidental coffee-stain, by which to remember me.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 by Various

One of them, on the shoulder-straps of whose "British warm" were the stars of a captain, was a slender, fair-haired, rather delicate-looking youngster in the early twenties.

From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

Not having been in the Army long enough to have lost all sense of shame, Chardenal began by trying to hide his cases under his British warm.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 by Various