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- adjective Wearing an
overcoat - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overcoat .
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Examples
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One of the defining images was the portrait shot of a player signing for his club, putting pen to paper in the family parlour while being loomed over, frowned at and generally dominated by some forbiddingly overcoated managerial paterfamilias.
Wayne's new world Barney Ronay 2010
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Schechter is 23 years old and also a target for Liverpool's overcoated touchline leaper Hodgson.
Football transfer rumours: Diego Forlán to Tottenham Hotspur? Barney Ronay 2010
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The day remained unbearably humid and the tarry black warehouses loomed over me like overcoated giants.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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The day remained unbearably humid and the tarry black warehouses loomed over me like overcoated giants.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.
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I wasted no time, but nonetheless when I stepped into the building and threaded my way through the overcoated, beer-drinking customers, I found that Joe was no longer there.
Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962
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The illustration shows two wounded Belgians -- one who has just been lifted out from an ambulance-wagon is on a stretcher; the other stands, a grimly picturesque, overcoated and "hooded" figure, in the centre.
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After a slight interval, two large overcoated men materialized out of the dark.
The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937
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When Alleyn turned to thank him, he was already walking away, squarely overcoated, tidy, looking just like his job.
Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935
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The latter was a stranger to him but in the darkness, by the aid of the glowing cigarette tips, he could make out a pale dandyish face over which a smile was travelling slowly, a tall overcoated figure and a hard hat.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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