overcoat

plural overcoats

1. A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

   Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   1 more example

   ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

2. An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).

   Near-synonym: topcoat

   1 more example

   Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.

   Synonyms: topcoat · Antonyms: undercoat, basecoat

present singular third person overcoats · participle present overcoating · participle past overcoated · past overcoated

1. transitiveTo apply an exterior coating to.

   Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.

   1 more example

   One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

   2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128