riding coat

plural riding coats · alternative riding-coat · alternative ridingcoat

1. A garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding.

   Who could that be with Mr. Lorry—the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair—who must not be seen?

   1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

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   There was no mistaking that voice—it was Nicholas Temple's. I heard a laugh and an answer, the gate slammed, and Mr. Temple himself in a long gray riding-coat, booted and spurred, stood before me.

   1904 May, Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 329