joseph
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Probably in allusion to Joseph's coat of many colours in Genesis 37:3.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
joseph (plural josephs)
- (sometimes capitalised) A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.
- 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 11”, in Silas Marner:
- Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet,
- 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 11”, in Silas Marner:
References [edit]
- joseph in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- 1894, Alice Morse Earl, Costume of Colonial Times[1], C. Scribner's Sons:
