Definition of Red-coated

1. Adjective. Used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats.

Exact synonyms: Lobster-backed
Similar to: Clad, Clothed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-coated

red-bellied turtle
red-berried elder
red-berry
red-black tree
red-blind
red-blindness
red-blooded
red-breasted merganser
red-breasted nuthatch
red-breasted sapsucker
red-breasted snipe
red-brick
red-card
red-carpet
red-carpet(a)
red-coated (current term)
red-crested pochard
red-crested pochards
red-deer
red-eared slider
red-eared sliders
red-eye
red-eyed vireo
red-faced
red-faced cormorant
red-flowered silky oak
red-green color blindness
red-green colour blindness
red-green dichromacy
red-gum

Literary usage of Red-coated

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

1. Gamosagammon: Or, Hints on Hymen. For the Use of Parties about to Connubialize by Hon. Hugh Rowley (1870)
"... friend who was with us was queer in the extreme; he imagined she had a couple of red-coated babies in her arms. Ridiculous, eh ? ..."

2. A Pipe of Dutch Kanaster; Or, Six Days in Holland by Twynihoe William Erle (1860)
"their office for about a penny, like our red-coated squadron in London. Their plan of assault was, it appeared, to give any unwary boot they could catch a ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"The evidence shows that if a 'red-coated' plant of unknown parentage is crossed with white and the ' red-coated ' offspring again crossed by white, ..."

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