coatee

American  

[koh-tee] / koʊˈti /

noun

1. a close-fitting short coat, especially one with tails or skirts.

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coatee British  

/ kəʊˈtiː, ˈkəʊtiː /

noun

1. a short coat, esp for a baby

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Etymology

Origin of coatee

1750–60, formation modeled on goatee

Example Sentences

There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

No coatee nor jacket can be warm enough for the British service, exposed as the men are to all varieties of climate; and infinitely more to cold and wet than to sunshine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

An old name for a coatee, or skirted jacket.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

And green is his coatee; And for Old Sir Peter Laurie I'd lay me doun and dee.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

The man and his wife expressed such sympathy that I did not hesitate to say: 'I want to get rid of my coatee, and of this cloak.

From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Sheldon, Charles Mills