Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man's long double-breasted topcoat with full skirt.
- noun A woman's full-length unlined coat or dress open down the front to show a dress or underdress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A double-breasted outside coat with long plain skirts not cut away at the front.
- noun A similar garment for women, worn either as a wrap or as part of the house dress, frequently cut away at the front.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"redingote" with three capes which fell over his shoulders, a striped waistcoat, chamois-leather breeches and dark-red morocco short boots with a heart-shaped cleft, and a tassel at the top of the leg; he wore a white muslin neckerchief, a frill, lace cuffs, and two golden English
A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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The "redingote" for our riding-coat is at once a more familiar and more modern instance.]
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Beneath the heavy fabric of her redingote, she clearly had a body made for seduction, too, with lush hips and lusher breasts.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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Beneath the heavy fabric of her redingote, she clearly had a body made for seduction, too, with lush hips and lusher breasts.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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I helped him to dress in the manner of a sophisticated Frenchman of the day, with a silk top hat and a well-cut double-breasted redingote dove grey, with blue black buttons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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I helped him to dress in the manner of a sophisticated Frenchman of the day, with a silk top hat and a well-cut double-breasted redingote dove grey, with blue black buttons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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I helped him to dress in the manner of a sophisticated Frenchman of the day, with a silk top hat and a well-cut double-breasted redingote dove grey, with blue black buttons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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In a moth-eaten redingote long out of style, he dictates to me his latest, an ode.
Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009
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I helped him to dress in the manner of a sophisticated Frenchman of the day, with a silk top hat and a well-cut double-breasted redingote dove grey, with blue black buttons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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I helped him to dress in the manner of a sophisticated Frenchman of the day, with a silk top hat and a well-cut double-breasted redingote dove grey, with blue black buttons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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