duffel coat

See also: duffel-coat

English

Alternative forms

• duffle coat

Etymology

After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel coats were made.

Noun

duffel coat (plural duffel coats)

1. A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

Related terms

• duffel bag

Descendants

• → French: duffel coat, duffel-coat, duffle-coat

Translations

hooded coat made from duffel

• Basque: trenka
• Catalan: trenca (ca) f
• Czech: duffelcoat m
• Danish: duffelcoat c
• Dutch: duffelcoat (nl) m, duffel (nl) m, montycoat (nl) m, houtje-touwtjejas (nl) m or f
• Estonian: duffelmantel
• Finnish: duffelitakki (fi), duffeli (fi)
• French: duffel-coat (fr) m, duffel coat (fr) m, duffle-coat (fr) m
• German: Dufflecoat (de) m, Düffelmantel m
• Hungarian: düftinkabát
• Italian: montgomery (it) m
• Japanese: ダッフルコート (daffurukōto)
• Manx: cooat duffyl m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: duffelcoat m, dyffelcoat m, duffeljakke m or f

• Polish: budrysówka f
• Portuguese: canadiana (pt) f
• Russian: дафлко́т (ru) m (daflkót)
• Spanish: trenca f
• Swedish: duffel (sv) c
• Ukrainian: да́флкот m (dáflkot)

Anagrams

• duffle coat

French

Noun

duffel coat m (plural duffel coats)

1. Alternative spelling of duffel-coat