overcoated
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overcoated (not comparable)
- Wearing an overcoat.
- 1892, Ambrose Bierce, The Applicant:
- He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
- 2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times[1]:
- These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.
Verb
[edit]overcoated
- simple past and past participle of overcoat