long-coat

noun — 2 senses

long-coat

noun

› Alternative form of longcoat.

1

A long overcoat.

  • Male religious specialists also wear a somewhat larger long-coat when performing religious ceremonies. This long-coat is dark blue or black and relatively plain.2002, Michael C. Howard, Kim Be Howard, Textiles of the Daic Peoples of Vietnam, →ISBN, page 35:
  • A figure dressed in a leather long-coat, goggles covering his eyes, walked past their car, saw Henry, and tipped his leather hat as he continued on toward the lake where a small complex of buildings serviced two long docks and a dozen moored boats.2011, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF, →ISBN:
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  • Hanging at the tent's entrance was his long-coat; he hung it there to remind himself, and others, of who they were dealing with.2012, Nick Lake, In Darkness, →ISBN, page 273:
2

A long-haired variety of a breed.

  • It is expected that half of such females will contain recessive the character long-coat, and that half will be free from it, i. e., will produce only short-haired young.1894, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2724, page 67:
  • The long-coat Chihuahua is somewhat different from other long-coat dogs.1998, Beverly Pisano, Chihuahuas, →ISBN, page 20:
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  • But there she was: a long-coat Shepherd.2009, Barrie Hawkins, Twenty Wagging Tales: Our Year of Rehoming Orphaned Dogs, →ISBN:

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