Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long, loose overcoat with a detachable cape having a round collar.
- n. The cape of such an overcoat.
Etymologies
- After Inverness . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In inverness, the punters in the hall lapped it up, and I suspect all ill get on the net from nat bloggers is the usual mince about me being a unionist stooge for rasing it here.”
“Mai frend ses ai nawt knead a wawm jakkit, butt(!) if ai am gowing tu Skottishland (inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundedin) – u fink ai wil knead wun?”
And exactly where were you last night? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I could even have gone as a branch delegate and thus only had to pay Hotel fees etc. but even then, it's the price of inverness accommodation that's so wild….”
“September 27, 2008 at 2:23 pm haddock inverness salmon jello”
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“He asked about work and my love life (ever the gossip queen), and then in the next text said I should get my arse up to inverness and see him.”
“Pulling a magnifying-glass from one bulging pocket of his inverness, Dr. Lepardo went peering over the writing desk, passing with a grunt from the bloodstained paper bearing the name of Séverac Bablon to the other documents and books lying there; to the pigeon-holes; to the chair; to the rug; to the body.”
“Simons opened it quickly, admitting a most strange old gentleman -- tall and ramshackle -- who was buttoned up in a chess-board inverness; whose trousers frayed out over his lustreless boots like much-defiled lace; whose coat-sleeves, protruding from the cape of his inverness, sought to make amends for the dullness of his footwear.”
“With his hands thrust deep in the sack-like pockets of his inverness he drifted from treasure to treasure -- uninvited, from room to room -- like some rudderless craft.”
“Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress, wearing a stained inverness cape, bent in two from incredible age, totters across the room, his hands fluttering.”
“The fitful flash of the match disclosed the rough furniture of a kitchen; the brick flooring and his wet inverness lay cold at Armitage's back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inverness’.
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z. aural ophelemity
words that sound so good, it's almost dirty
voluptuous, sensuous, voracious, ransom, sinister, notorious, wretched, insurrection, limbic, inverness, luscious, torrid and 3 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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british columbia
Street names, city names, and other words from the other belle province.
lillooet, coquilhalla, trafalgar, sechelt, inverness, hope, similkameen, thurlow, okanagan, cordova, esquimalt, ucluelet and 30 more...
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place to be
"Just hand me down, give me a place to be."
~ Nick Drakeparnassus, belarus, lisbon, beulah, minnetonka, peoria, trafalgar, albemarle, antigonish, inverness, poughkeepsie, pitcairn and 4 more...
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armchair traveler
interesting place names
ipswitch, bora bora, inverness, burkina faso, ouagadougou, gobi, reykjavik, pampas, paraguay, nicaragua, kuala lumpur, ulan bator and 70 more...
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I like : I
ignoble, ikebana, impedimenta, inglorious, insolence, inter arma silent..., io, iron, isolate, impasse, inverness, invocation
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rolig Yeah, I know, ptero, but many women consider "inverness" to be demeaning. Sep 7, 2008
pterodactyl Also, a female invern. Sep 7, 2008
rolig The quality of being inver; also known as inversion or invership. Sep 6, 2008
chained_bear Right. Not the city. Sep 6, 2008
bilby She's talking about the ship. Sep 6, 2008
chained_bear Formerly the Duke of Chartres. Sep 6, 2008