top-coats

It is so cold in the morning that the men are wearing their top-coats; the day does not get hot until the sun is a considerable height.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Men in flawless top-coats, high hats, and silver-headed walking sticks elbowed near and looked too often into conscious eyes.

Sister Carrie 2004

There were four French and two Japanese male passengers, who sat at meals in top-coats, comforters, and hats.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Pretorius said enumerators could be identified by yellow of green top-coats and census identification cards.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The travellers in the early part of the afternoon look warm and comfortable, as if taking a summer drive; but as eve draws nearer, you meet them well wrapped in top-coats or cloaks, or rough, great surtouts, and red-nosed withal, seeming to take no great comfort, but pressing homeward.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Here was a frowsy little room with some hats and top-coats draping the dirty, white-washed walls.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

Here was a frowsy little room with some hats and top-coats draping the dirty, white-washed walls.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

Upon their stalwart bosoms were four rows of buttons, and there was a row of brass on each side of their top-coats, on their shoulders, and at the back of their waist-belts.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Such passengers as were still making their rounds were doing so determinedly, in sweaters or top-coats.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

Men in flawless top-coats, high hats, and silver-headed walking sticks elbowed near and looked too often into conscious eyes.

Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908