ulster

plural ulsters · alternative Ulster

1. men's attirebusinessA long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.

   Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …

   1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, X [Uniform ed., p. 102]

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   “That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.”

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 53

   I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.

   1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 32

   “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.

   1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020

   “By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 97

alternative Ulsther

1. The northern province of Ireland, made up of all six Northern Irish counties and three counties in the Republic of Ireland.
2. proscribedgovernmentThe six counties that make up Northern Ireland.
3. A county named after the Irish province in New York State: see Ulster County.

   Ulster County saw a smaller, but still dramatic spike in reported cases last year with 419, compared to 351 in 2016. Ulster also largely has seen a decline in the number of annual cases from a high of 778 in 2008 to the low in 2016.

   2018 August 23, “Lyme diseases cases spiked by 50 percent in Dutchess in 2017”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2021

4. A township in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
5. A town in Ulster County, New York, United States.
6. A township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

plural Ulsters · alternative Ulsther

1. Alternative letter-case form of ulster (“men's heavy overcoat”).