Meanings
nounwooden overcoat (plural wooden overcoats)
plural wooden overcoats
- alternativeAlternative form of wooden coat.
She had no religious education, had never seen the inside of a church until Granny put on the wooden overcoat.
1999, David Ireland, The chosen, page 1761 more example
Instead we gathered, the five of us, around your wooden overcoat to cry and weep remembering how in childhood we made you promise not to die.
2009, Joanne Cucinello, The Moon is Still Yellow
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wooden overcoat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wooden%20overcoat
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