Definition of Coats

1. Noun. (plural of coat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coats

1. coat [v] - See also: coat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coats

coati-mondi
coati-mundi
coatimundi
coatimundis
coating
coatings
coatis
coatless
coatlike
coatomer
coatomers
coatrack
coatracks
coatroom
coatrooms
coats (current term)
coats of arms
coatstand
coatstands
coattail
coattails
coattails effect
coattend
coattended
coattending
coattends
coattest
coattested
coattesting
coattests

Literary usage of Coats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"J. & P. coats vs. Platt, et al. In January last an injunction was granted to restrain defendants from selling an article of spool ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"community, in which all the coats were made by one man, the exchangeable ... A cave supplies them with shelter ; but the climate renders coats a necessity. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The ileum is narrower, its coats thinner and less vascular than those of the jejunum, ... The wall of the small intestine is composed of four coats—serous, ..."

4. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"They then begin to pick holes, as we say, in the coats of some of the godly, and that devilishly, that they may have a seeming colour to throw religion (for ..."

5. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"find any Bridgwater cloth but Red; so all the coats sent are red lined with blew, ... These coats of double thickness were evidently doublets. ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"coats of Commoners, the arms would be described thus : Argent, ... Can your correspondent inform me which of the several coats of arms that he has ..."

7. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"MEN AND coats. ... Birds sing and make love ; bees wake and make honey ; horses and men leave off their shaggy winter clothing and turn out in fresh coats. ..."

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