Meanings
plural overtunics
- A tunic worn over other clothing.
1 more example
1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
Origin
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overtunic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtunic
“overtunic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtunic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overtunic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtunic.
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