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  • Everyone else is costumed for school or for work, like the housewives in their dustcoats and pinafores; the soldier lying upside down as if discarded on the battlefield is still dressed for war.

    The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948 2010

  • The panel van had been driven in to the foot of the dock and three men stood beside it, all of them in grey dustcoats, all of them wearing black hoods with eyeholes in them.

    Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994

  • As the auto mobile drew closer to the house, Qeo could see the two men in it, both wearing dustcoats, caps, and goggles.

    The Lunatic Fringe DeAndrea, William L. 1980

  • The first lollipop people wore white dustcoats and carried red torches, which were later exchanged for black and white rectangles with the message "Stop, Children Crossing" on them.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • It's the boys in the khaki overalls, and the grey dustcoats, and the blue jackets, and the black singlets, and the green uniforms, and the Armani suits.

    unknown title 2009

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