coat trailing

plural coat trailings

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of coat-trailing.

   He was commended for his work, and there is no suggestion that if he had eschewed all coat trailings his success would have been greater.

   2010, David Burnett-James, Ravel: Illustrated Lives Of The Great Composers, →ISBN

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   In order to find out the class level as early as possible, a bit of coat trailing on the very first evening seems to be a good thing, provoking plenty of discussion and giving the tutor ample opportunity to study form.

   1951, Scottish Adult Education - Issues 1-25

   My Lords, I should like to thank the noble Viscount for the way in which he has introduced the Bill. It was much less provocative and with much less coat trailing than the way in which it was introduced in another place.

   1986, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report, page 405

   Elvira had spent several weeks 'coat trailing' through the South of France, spending time in casinos and expensive restaurants while maintaining her 'cosmopolitan cover as a society girl mixing in the very top circles', without so much as a sniff from German intelligence.

   2012, Ben Macintyre, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, →ISBN, page 55