Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man's overcoat; especially, in recent usage, such a coat cut like a frock-coat with full skirts.
- n. In fortification, the elevation of the parapet of a work at the angles, to protect from enfilade fire.
- n. A single large piece, such as an epergne, a vase holding cut flowers, a decorative cache-pot with a growing plant, or a large and decorative tazza or compotiėre, used to form the central ornament of a dinner-table.
Wiktionary
- n. A man's overcoat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat
Examples
“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.”
“He was a patron of the turf, a connoisseur of Italian Opera, and 'surtout' an inveterate libertine.”
“Bonjour Alexis, C'est bon apprendre quelchose nouveau et surtout avec la famille Espinasse.”
“C'est vraiment la même histoire partout que la routine nous rassure (surtout nous qui approche la viellese!) que, jour par jour, la vie continue; et qu'il faut arroser les fleurs tous les jours, or tous les deux jours -- j'oublie ... c'est la maladie des anciens ...”
“J'ai surtout apprecie la phrase "la longue ligne musicale" du courbe de Mont Ventoux.”
“Il est très important pour la qualité des raisins que l'on peut obtenir, mais c'est surtout le travail de l'homme dans la vigne qui fera la différence, permettant au terroir de s'exprimer ou non.”
“Mais cette victoire est surtout entachée d'une grossière double faute de main de la part de”
“Le ministre fédéral des Finances, qui présentera son budget mardi, a récemment créé, pour le conseiller, un conseil consultatif sur l'économie, composé surtout de chefs d'entreprises.”
“In Paris board - and ballrooms, it's an address that's exchanged in confidence: "Mais surtout ne le dis á personne.”
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“Contrairement aux idées reçues, les marocaines (surtout celles âgées entre 20 et 25 ans) sont friandes [de sextoys].”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘surtout’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
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The Request Line
This is the place to add words you'd like Charles Harrington Elster to pronounce for you!
swingeing, affiant, dahlia, hydrangea, re, clematis, Nabokov, casu marzu, schadenfreudgeon, nefarious, mewl, manteion and 170 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
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inkhorn's Words
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Quaintnesses
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 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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