covert-coat

plural covert-coats · alternative covert coat

1. A coat suitable for wearing while shooting game, usually with a neutral colour and windproof or waterproof qualities.

   Meanwhile Raffles rejoined me, with a covert-coat over his blazer, and a soft felt hat set carelessly on the curly head he shook with a smile as I passed him the decanter.

   1899, E. W. Hornung, “The Ides of March”, in The Amateur Cracksman, page 18

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   [T]he eldest pupil with seven muslin dresses in the summer, and being scolded because she swelled out after two helpings of meat and two of pie and cream, and the youngest almost square in her little covert-coat […].

   1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater