Definition of Coat

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Definition of Coat

Coat

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

A petticoat.

The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.

A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

Same as Coat of arms. See below.

A coat card. See below.

To cover with a coat or outer garment.

To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

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Coat Quotations

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles de Gaulle

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike

Coat Translations

coat in Afrikaans is jas
coat in Danish is frakke
coat in Dutch is jas, overjas
coat in French is pardessus, enduis, enduit, enduisons, enduisez
coat in German is umkleiden, umkleiden, Mantel, Mantel
coat in Italian is cappotto, pelle, strato
coat in Norwegian is frakk
coat in Portuguese is revestimento
coat in Spanish is manto, pelleja, foco
coat in Swedish is rock, kappa, kavaj

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