Meanings
nounshort-coat (plural short-coats)
plural short-coats
- historicalpluralThe shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.
verbshort-coat (third-person singular simple present short-coats, present participle short-coating, simple past and past participle short-coated)
present singular third person short-coats · participle present short-coating · participle past short-coated · past short-coated
- transitiveTo dress in short-coats.
Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated.
1885, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 1, page 85
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