top-coat

A tall older man who was really well-dressed in an expensive suit got out with a briefcase and a travel pack, reached into the cab and pulled out a top-coat, and paid off the cab driver, who then backed out of the drive and left.

No Dogs Allowed Jerry Ratch 2011

By this time Mr. Goon was feeling so hot that he considered taking off his top-coat.

Separate Douglas Light 2010

The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel pistols, of the sort called “knock-me-downs.”

Les Miserables 2008

She had no underlayer, and this made her top-coat look thin, flat and wiry.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

She had no underlayer, and this made her top-coat look thin, flat and wiry.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

However, if a little silk dress or top-coat is well-made and a good fit, I say go for it -- both can look incredibly chic if they're not tarted up too much.

Christene Barberich: This Week In eBay Obsessions: Leopard Prints For Fall 2008

You will recognize me and my dress — a quiet-looking young fellow, in a white top-coat, a crimson satin neckcloth, light blue trousers, with glossy tipped boots, and an emerald breast-pin.

The Book of Snobs 2006

He had seen nothing of Mr Bonteen; but as he crossed over to Clarges Street he was passed at a very rapid pace by a man muffled in a top-coat, who made his way straight along Bolton Row towards the passage which has been described.

Phineas Redux 2004

He had heard nothing of Yosef Mealyus as connected with the murder, but some indistinct reference to Lord Fawn and the top-coat had been made to him.

Phineas Redux 2004

She saw a man who looked like a European diplomat, in a loose top-coat and a Homburg hat.

Main Street 2004