Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who wears a black coat: a common and familiar name for a clergyman, as redcoat is, in England, for a soldier.
- n. plural A name given to the German reiters, or mercenary troops, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from their black armor and dress.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of the clergy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a
redcoat or abluecoat .
Examples
“The blackcoat, the parasite, the keeper of the laws,”
“One of the ministers, after a mile's running, taking all creatures for his foes, meeting with a soldier, fell on his knees, who, knowing nothing of the matter, asked the blackcoat what he meant.”
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell
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