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  • The ordinary dress of the men, in winter, is a blue blanket-coat, made with a _capuchon_, or hood, which latter is generally trimmed with bright-colored ribbon and ornamented with beads.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

  • They, also, decided that he had collected them together in order thus to injure them, and to further his designs he had presented, to each of their distinguished warriors, a blanket-coat.

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

  • The fourth person, a sober, and substantial-looking borderer, in a huge blanket-coat and slouched hat, the latter stuck round with buck's tails, was the nominal captain of the party.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • Jim was dressed about as usual for the ride, save that he wore an extra pair of trousers beneath his overalls and a great blanket-coat upon his back.

    Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

  • When at work his little wide eyes flickered with a baleful, wicked light, his huge voice bellowed through the woods in a torrent of imprecations and commands, his splendid muscles swelled visibly even under his loose blanket-coat as he wrenched suddenly and savagely at some man's stubborn cant-hook stock.

    Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909

  • From under his blanket-coat the chief brought forth the thing that had bulged there, a tom-tom.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • From under his blanket-coat the chief brought forth the thing that had bulged there, a tom-tom.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • From under his blanket-coat the chief brought forth the thing that had bulged there, a tom-tom.

    God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • At first they breathed temperately upon the travellers, winds good to meet when one crawled over some gigantic hog's-back; but in a few days, at a height of nine or ten thousand feet, those breezes bit; and Kim kindly allowed a village of hillmen to acquire merit by giving him a rough blanket-coat.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood, who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

    Frontier Types 1896

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