Overcoat
noun
A heavy coat worn over clothing during cold weather.
He put on his overcoat before stepping out into the cold.
Often appears as...
- wear an overcoat
- button an overcoat
noun
An additional layer on the surface of something.
The painter applied an overcoat to protect the surface of the wood.
Often appears as...
- apply an overcoat
- overcoat of paint
noun
A heavy coat worn over clothing during cold weather.
He put on his overcoat before stepping out into the cold.
Often appears as...
- wear an overcoat
- button an overcoat
noun
An additional layer on the surface of something.
The painter applied an overcoat to protect the surface of the wood.
Often appears as...
- apply an overcoat
- overcoat of paint
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Pro Tip 1/3Cold Weather
An overcoat is specifically designed for cold climates or seasons.
You'll need an overcoat for the winter trip to Canada.
Pro Tip 2/3Outer Layer
Worn as the outermost garment, it covers other clothes.
She wore her overcoat over a dress and a cardigan.
Pro Tip 3/3Style Indicator
Overcoats can be a fashion statement, varying in length, color, and material.
His camel-colored overcoat complemented his outfit.
Pro Tip 1/3Cold Weather
An overcoat is specifically designed for cold climates or seasons.
You'll need an overcoat for the winter trip to Canada.
Pro Tip 2/3Outer Layer
Worn as the outermost garment, it covers other clothes.
She wore her overcoat over a dress and a cardigan.
Pro Tip 3/3Style Indicator
Overcoats can be a fashion statement, varying in length, color, and material.
His camel-colored overcoat complemented his outfit.
Pro Tip 1/3Cold Weather
An overcoat is specifically designed for cold climates or seasons.
You'll need an overcoat for the winter trip to Canada.
Pro Tip 2/3Outer Layer
Worn as the outermost garment, it covers other clothes.
She wore her overcoat over a dress and a cardigan.
Pro Tip 3/3Style Indicator
Overcoats can be a fashion statement, varying in length, color, and material.
His camel-colored overcoat complemented his outfit.
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Why you should talk to...
So he's wearing, like, a long overcoat and sort of an old-man hat, and he looked like somebody from a movie. And he says to me, "Don't stand there. You might disappear." So this is absurd, right? But I did what he said. I stepped back onto the sidewalk.
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Baby Penguin Must Find...
already the blizzard has reached the colony the chick's only protection is his overcoat of down and at -40 it's simply not enough
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What is Skin? PIPE National...
at the surface of it all a velvety overcoat of cells and protein keeps us in and the rest of the world out
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Why you should talk to...
So he's wearing, like, a long overcoat and sort of an old-man hat, and he looked like somebody from a movie. And he says to me, "Don't stand there. You might disappear." So this is absurd, right? But I did what he said. I stepped back onto the sidewalk.
Video examples
Baby Penguin Must Find...
already the blizzard has reached the colony the chick's only protection is his overcoat of down and at -40 it's simply not enough
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What is Skin? PIPE National...
at the surface of it all a velvety overcoat of cells and protein keeps us in and the rest of the world out
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Quote examples
Fred MacMurray
I don't night-club, don't get into fights or scandals, don't own a yacht, don't play the horses, don't wear plaid overcoats, don't go to Hollywood parties, don't own a motorcycle, don't run back and forth to New York, don't go in for politics.
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Claude Bernard
French Scientist
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Glenn Hoddle
British Athlete
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
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Charles Peguy
French Philosopher
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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Chad Stahelski
American Actor
I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.
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Wilson Mizner
American Dramatist
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
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Madhura Naik
Indian Model
In Delhi or elsewhere, I love wearing overcoats, boots and fur coats. Fur is my favourite.
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John Malkovich
American Actor
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
Working on 'The Paradise' is like putting on a comfy overcoat.
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Fred MacMurray
I don't night-club, don't get into fights or scandals, don't own a yacht, don't play the horses, don't wear plaid overcoats, don't go to Hollywood parties, don't own a motorcycle, don't run back and forth to New York, don't go in for politics.
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Claude Bernard
French Scientist
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Glenn Hoddle
British Athlete
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
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Charles Peguy
French Philosopher
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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Chad Stahelski
American Actor
I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.
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Wilson Mizner
American Dramatist
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Quote examples
Madhura Naik
Indian Model
In Delhi or elsewhere, I love wearing overcoats, boots and fur coats. Fur is my favourite.
Quote examples
John Malkovich
American Actor
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
Quote examples
Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
Working on 'The Paradise' is like putting on a comfy overcoat.
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