surtout

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Sir Roger, whom she mortally hated and used to hire fellows to squirt kennel water upon him as he passed along the streets; so that he was forced constantly to wear a surtout of oiled cloth, by which means he came home pretty clean, except where the surtout was a little scanty.

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  1. A man's overcoat; especially, in recent usage, such a coat cut like a frock-coat with full skirts. I learned that he was but just arrived in England, and that he came from some hot country: which was the reason, doubtless, his face was so sallow, and that he sat so near the hearth, and wore a surtout in the house. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xviii. A gentleman in a blue surtout and silken berlins accompanied us from the hotel. Forster, Dickens, vi.
  2. In fortification, the elevation of the parapet of a work at the angles, to protect from enfilade fire.
  3. Surtout de table. A set of vessels, porcelain or faience, used for the decoration of a dinner-table or supper-table. Sets of Crown Derby biscuit ware containing groups of rustic figures, etc., and of great beauty, have been made for this purpose.

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  1. from French surtout, an overcoat, surtout, literally ‘over-all’; from sur-, over, + tout, all, from Latin totus, all: see total.
 

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