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Examples ofgreatcoat in a Sentence
the men donned theirgreatcoats for the ride in the open carriage
Recent Examples on the WebNowhere was this more evident than at Burberry, where trenches,greatcoats, and rain capes in deep earth tones reasserted the house’s mastery of protection from the elements.—
Tianwei Zhang,WWD, 25 Feb. 2025Tommy’s security guards wear SS-stylegreatcoatsby Sarafina Bush.—Jesse Green,New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024The men were sporting tweets, Norfolk jackets and a camel hairgreatcoat.—Melanie Windridge,Forbes, 24 May 2021The boys from Köpenick, the idiot with the armygreatcoatwho stabbed his own leg on a dare.—Hari Kunzru,The New Yorker, 29 June 2020The dictator threw on hisgreatcoat, saddled up his white steed and rode up the mountain’s slopes until man and beast were gazing into the caldera lake that glints at the summit, pure as the Korean race.—The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019In 2015, Michael Kors put his spin on the songbird’s favorite peasant dress silhouette, while at Chloé that same year, Clare Waight Keller dressed her models ingreatcoatsand skinny neck scarves that recalled some of her famous stage ensembles.—Brooke Bobb,Vogue, 14 Dec. 2018TheaterWorks honcho Rob Ruggiero, who has directed regularly at Goodspeed for around a decade now, helms this tricky show, which requires highly skilled character actors, a large group of unruly children and a wardrobe ofgreatcoatsand top hats.—Christopher Arnott,courant.com, 19 June 2018Reed observed it ongreatcoats, boots, floors, stairways.—Olga Ingurazova,Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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Tianwei Zhang,WWD, 25 Feb. 2025Tommy’s security guards wear SS-stylegreatcoatsby Sarafina Bush.—Jesse Green,New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024The men were sporting tweets, Norfolk jackets and a camel hairgreatcoat.—Melanie Windridge,Forbes, 24 May 2021The boys from Köpenick, the idiot with the armygreatcoatwho stabbed his own leg on a dare.—Hari Kunzru,The New Yorker, 29 June 2020The dictator threw on hisgreatcoat, saddled up his white steed and rode up the mountain’s slopes until man and beast were gazing into the caldera lake that glints at the summit, pure as the Korean race.—The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019In 2015, Michael Kors put his spin on the songbird’s favorite peasant dress silhouette, while at Chloé that same year, Clare Waight Keller dressed her models ingreatcoatsand skinny neck scarves that recalled some of her famous stage ensembles.—Brooke Bobb,Vogue, 14 Dec. 2018TheaterWorks honcho Rob Ruggiero, who has directed regularly at Goodspeed for around a decade now, helms this tricky show, which requires highly skilled character actors, a large group of unruly children and a wardrobe ofgreatcoatsand top hats.—Christopher Arnott,courant.com, 19 June 2018Reed observed it ongreatcoats, boots, floors, stairways.—Olga Ingurazova,Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017Word History
First Known Use
1647, in the meaning definedabove
Rhymes forgreatcoat
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“Greatcoat.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greatcoat. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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greatcoat
noungreat·coatˈgrāt-ˌkōt 
:a heavy overcoat
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