coat dress

noun

1. a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
2. formerly, a dress tailored and styled like a coat

Example Sentences

Outfit details: Zevelyn Jean coat dress, wide leg pants.

From Los Angeles Times

Outfit details: Zevelyn Jean coat dress, wide leg pants.

From Los Angeles Times

Model Luna Lovebad walked out in a baby pink bubble coat dress featuring motifs that drew on what is maybe the most famous lowrider in the city: the Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Chevy Impala.

From Los Angeles Times

But he adopted a decidedly more conformist look in the run up to Sunday’s runoff election — still no tie, but a dark sport coat, dress shirts and well-groomed beard — to court more conservative Chileans on edge about voting for an untested millennial who counts among his supporters Chile’s Communist Party.

From Seattle Times

Case in point: the tailored coat dress Bella Hadid wore to the 2017 Council of Fashion Designers of America awards.

From New York Times