wooden overcoat

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wooden overcoat (plural wooden overcoats)

  1. Alternative form of wooden coat
    • 1999, David Ireland, The chosen, page 176:
      She had no religious education, had never seen the inside of a church until Granny put on the wooden overcoat.
    • 2009, Joanne Cucinello, The Moon is Still Yellow:
      Instead we gathered, the five of us, around your wooden overcoat to cry and weep remembering how in childhood we made you promise not to die.