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Definition of Box coat
1. Noun. A short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Coat
Literary usage of Box coat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"Take my box-coat—No, no, my cloak—here is my wrap-rascal. Tie my Barcelona round
your neat neck. Ring for a coach and six. OMNES (crowding round the ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"If a livery coat has a laced collar, wearing the box coat over it, will soon cut
it to ... A good full-made box coat, with six real capes, and lined with ..."
3. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1831)
"So I put on my box- coat, and took out my tabac, and offered the cocher some.
"Thank ye, Sare," said he, " allow me to offer some out of my box"—at the same ..."
4. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelly by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Edward Dowden (1906)
"We had not advanced far before rain began to fall, at first softly, and soon
afterwards heavily. My friend's box-coat was of frieze, of a soft spongy ..."
5. The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for by John Jervis (1827)
"If a Livery Coat has a Laced Collar, wearing the box coat over it, will soon cut
it to pieces. ... Brought forward 259 9 0 A good full-made box coat ..."
6. A Report of the Trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, Before the Supreme by Ephraim K. Avery, Richard Hildreth, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1833)
"He was a tall man, and had on a dark box coat or surtout, and a flat fur cap.
... A box coat differs from a surtout in having pockets on the outside. ..."
7. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"There are advantages in the old hat and box-coat. I have heard, that, ... But the
box-coat is like wine ; it unlocks the tongue, and men say what they think ..."
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