duffel coat

noun

A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.

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Meanings

nounduffel coat (plural duffel coats)

plural duffel coats · alternative duffle coat

  1. A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.

    Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

    1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna warm coat made of duffel; usually has a hood and fastens with toggles

Similar
duffle coat
Broader
coat

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel coats were made.

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Translations

Basque trenka
  • trenkahooded coat made from duffel
Catalan trenca
  • trencahooded coat made from duffel
Czech duffelcoat
  • duffelcoathooded coat made from duffel
Danish duffelcoat
  • duffelcoathooded coat made from duffel
Dutch duffelcoat, duffel
  • duffelcoathooded coat made from duffel
  • duffelhooded coat made from duffel
  • montycoathooded coat made from duffel
  • houtje-touwtjejashooded coat made from duffel
Estonian duffelmantel
  • duffelmantelhooded coat made from duffel
Finnish duffelitakki, duffeli
  • duffelitakkihooded coat made from duffel
  • duffelihooded coat made from duffel
French duffel-coat, duffel coat
  • duffel-coathooded coat made from duffel
  • duffel coathooded coat made from duffel
  • duffle-coathooded coat made from duffel
German Dufflecoat, Düffelmantel
  • Dufflecoathooded coat made from duffel
  • Düffelmantelhooded coat made from duffel
Hungarian düftinkabát
  • düftinkabáthooded coat made from duffel
Italian montgomery
  • montgomeryhooded coat made from duffel
Japanese ダッフルコート
  • ダッフルコート (daffurukōto)hooded coat made from duffel
Norwegian Bokmål duffelcoat, dyffelcoat
  • duffelcoathooded coat made from duffel
  • dyffelcoathooded coat made from duffel
  • duffeljakkehooded coat made from duffel
Polish budrysówka
  • budrysówkahooded coat made from duffel
Portuguese canadiana
  • canadianahooded coat made from duffel
Russian дафлко́т
  • дафлко́т (daflkót)hooded coat made from duffel
Spanish trenca
  • trencahooded coat made from duffel
Swedish duffel
  • duffelhooded coat made from duffel
Ukrainian да́флкот
  • да́флкот (dáflkot)hooded coat made from duffel
Cite this entry
APA

duffel coat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/duffel%20coat

MLA

“duffel coat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/duffel%20coat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “duffel coat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/duffel%20coat.

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