ulster
noun/ˈʌlstə/
Etymology Named after the Ulster Overcoat Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster), the original maker of this type of coat.
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Business, Clothing, Fashion, Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Textiles A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.
- “That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 53:
- I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 32:
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- “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, X [Uniform ed., p. 102]
- “By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 97:
- Derived terms
- ulstered, ulsterette
- Related terms
- Inverness, Macfarlane