Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A short double-breasted coat of heavy woolen material, in form resembling a short top-coat.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of pea coat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thick loose double-breasted woolen jacket, or coat, commonly worn by sailors in cold weather; a pea-jacket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket
Examples
“I didn't know what a "peacoat" was until I got here - and fitting a coat is utterly different from fitting a shirt or jacket.”
A Harvard Law School seminar: "What to Wear in Winter Climates."
“A young woman in a red peacoat glances up at the display in horror.”
“Wearing a dark peacoat and a flowing denim skirt down to her toes, a white scarf covering her hair, she smiled as she surveyed the massive crowd.”
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“He's decked out in a blue button-up, jeans and a peacoat, and packaged with an exclusive Cullen family crest.”
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“At men's fashion week in Milan and Paris, an emerging trend is brightly colored overcoats, including a pink peacoat at Jil Sander and raspberry and mustard-yellow overcoats at Burberry and Bottega Veneta.”
“Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.”
“I loved when she was on the net and it said the gray peacoat … GOOD JOBI also saw a really funny parody posted on twihard and thirty i was laughing so hard i cried.”
“If you prefer not to wear a full-length coat, consider a peacoat-style rain jacket in water-repellent fabric or shiny vinyl.”
“As it got colder, he started showing up in more layers, a brown corduroy suitcoat, then a black peacoat.”
“She was wearing a yellow peacoat, red lipstick, and had her hair pinned back in a wave.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peacoat’.
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The Storybook Words
Words from children's literature that feed young imaginations and spark a love of words and language.
peril, sparkle, fizzle, kerfuffle, lachrymose, heebie-jeebies, turtleneck, peacoat, smarmy, daffodil, snapdragon, grouch and 1 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 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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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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