Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dress that buttons up the front and is tailored somewhat like a coat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dress that resembles a coat, usually having a buttoning front

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front

Etymologies

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coat +‎ dress

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Examples

  • Feb. 13: Lady Gaga shocks the Grammy Awards audience by appearing in a knee-length navy blue coatdress from Sears.

    Report from Week 894 Post 2010

  • Zipped up in plastic sleeves were dresses of black lace and velvet, a blue and silver mohair shift with a white fur collar which she wore at my uncles wedding, a pink lace coatdress, a shimmery champagne cocktail gown covered with glittering rhinestones.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Zipped up in plastic sleeves were dresses of black lace and velvet, a blue and silver mohair shift with a white fur collar which she wore at my uncles wedding, a pink lace coatdress, a shimmery champagne cocktail gown covered with glittering rhinestones.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • One navy blue coatdress I still have, and if I ever manage to lose enough weight and am willing to trade out the dated brass buttons, it's classic enough to wear again.

    Ho Ho Ho, I Swear!! PeaceBang 2006

  • And unlike the coatdress, you can pop it on over pants or skirt to get the look of a coatdress, but remain in the new millennium.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • And unlike the coatdress, you can pop it on over pants or skirt to get the look of a coatdress, but remain in the new millennium.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • And unlike the coatdress, you can pop it on over pants or skirt to get the look of a coatdress, but remain in the new millennium.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • By the end of the first meeting, Mrs. Bush had picked out a day dress and a coatdress.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • She liked the navy coatdress, so we decided to make another in raspberry linen, a wonderful color for her that would show up in photographs.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • I thought a coatdress would be wonderful for occasions when she had to greet people unexpectedly.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

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