bluecoat
nounEtymology From blue + coat.
1
UK, Often A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code.
- This was a bluecoat school in my day.
2
History, Human sciences, Sciences US A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War.
- The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry.2009 January 18, Ralph Blumenthal, “Re-enactor Is Indicted in Shooting of a Yankee”, in New York Times:
3
Dated A policeman.
- Holonym: thin blue line
- "The offices are up those steps," said the bluecoat.1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
- Synonyms
- police officer