overcoatless

A season of the year devoted to new bonnets, overcoatless young men and pneumonia.

The Silly Syclopedia

The men had flung away whatever was fling-away-able during the charge of the morning and the subsequent hot march -- as men always will, under like circumstances -- and now they found themselves blanketless, stockingless, overcoatless, -- in cold and damp trenches, and compelled by the steady firing to lie still, or adopt a horizontal, crawling mode of locomotion, which did not admit of speed enough to quicken the circulation of the blood.

The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War