blanket-coat

noun

A short heavy coat made of mackinaw.

Meanings

nounblanket-coat (plural blanket-coats)

plural blanket-coats · alternative blanketcoat

  1. A short heavy coat made of mackinaw.

    Even with his thick blanket-coat, he was soon wet through and shivering.

    1999, Jack Hanson, Wildgun
    2 more examples

    Then, getting into a thick blanket-coat, she pulled on her gloves and, taking up a small leather blouse-case, went out, closing the door noiselessly after her.

    1917, William Le Queux, The Bomb-Makers

    The long arm she threw out thickened, rather surprisingly and very beautifully, up to its pit; and the man on the boat who had shown the solicitude about the collar of her blanket-coat had been quite a good judge of necks.

    2015, Oliver Onions, The Tower of Oblivion
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