furcoat

plural furcoats

1. alternativeuncommonAlternative spelling of fur coat.

   He sat there listening to the dancetunes, looking at the silk stockings and the high heels and the furcoats and the pretty girls’ faces pinched a little by the wind as they came in off the street. […] Doris panted a little breathless from the stairs as she threw open her furcoat.

   1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money (U.S.A.), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 12 and 226

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   The transporters, they were resting, sprawled out, in the back of their wagons, like leisurely gentlemen or like the hills. And in their heavy furcoats![…]—there are random traces of exhalation on the windowpane, a thin nightshirt held tight in front of my belly, crease and squeeze, yes, he is looking at me, his furcoat swings and rocks around his body like a churchbell.

   1984, Péter Esterházy, “The Transporters”, in Ferenc Takács, transl., The Hungarian P.E.N., pages 41–42

   The people wore huge furcoats and furcaps covering their faces, peepholes for noses; […] Clara stood by smiling, holding baby Eugenie, recalling how he had played with her and her brothers so long ago by setting a lantern on the floor to enlarge his shadow on the wall and entering with his furcoat like a bear on the loose, recalling stories of doppelgangers and caricatures on the piano.

   2015, Boman Desai, Trio: A Novel Biography of the Schumanns and Brahms, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 234 and 309