coatee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coatee
1750–60, formation modeled on goatee
Example Sentences
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There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each of us had a coatee, made of common cloth; but we all carried hunting-shirts, to be worn as soon as we entered the woods.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Not a coatee, which soldiers wear Button’d up high about the throat, But easy, flowing, debonair— In short a civil long-tail’d Coat.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 by Various
At this time a tall, lathy gentleman came in, wearing a most original cut coatee.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
He drew the bill from the pocket of his coatee.
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Sheldon, Charles Mills
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