coatigan

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noun

A garment that is a hybrid of a coat and a cardigan.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nouncoatigan (plural coatigans)

plural coatigans

  1. A garment that is a hybrid of a coat and a cardigan.

    Coatigans can be found at all price levels from a variety of retailers, including Amazon, J. Crew and so on up to the very haute.

    2023 September 25, Vanessa Friedman, “Should I Wear a Fleece to the Office?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023
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    And it doesn't stop there: greige, skorts, coatigans, recessionistas, glunge, glamping – all these linguistic mashups began life on the pages of fashion magazines or style blogs and have since gone more mainstream than a Louboutin stiletto.

    2013 May 10, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023

    Oh my god, you should see them. It is actually the most hilar thing I have ever seen in my life. Even more hilar than the coatigan Gran made before.

    2015, Arabella Weir, Testing Times for Tabitha Baird, London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 148

Origin

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APA

coatigan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coatigan

MLA

“coatigan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coatigan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coatigan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coatigan.

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