top coat

English

Noun

top coat (plural top coats)

  1. Alternative form of topcoat.
    • 1958 October, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 682:
      "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.
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