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Definition of Coats
1. coat [v] - See also: coat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coats
Literary usage of Coats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1860)
"J. & P. coats vs. Platt, et al. In January last an injunction was granted to
restrain defendants from selling an article of spool ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"community, in which all the coats were made by one man, the exchangeable ...
A cave supplies them with shelter ; but the climate renders coats a necessity. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The ileum is narrower, its coats thinner and less vascular than those of the jejunum,
... The wall of the small intestine is composed of four coats—serous, ..."
4. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"They then begin to pick holes, as we say, in the coats of some of the godly, and
that devilishly, that they may have a seeming colour to throw religion (for ..."
5. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"find any Bridgwater cloth but Red; so all the coats sent are red lined with blew,
... These coats of double thickness were evidently doublets. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"coats of Commoners, the arms would be described thus : Argent, ... Can your
correspondent inform me which of the several coats of arms that he has ..."
7. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"MEN AND coats. ... Birds sing and make love ; bees wake and make honey ; horses
and men leave off their shaggy winter clothing and turn out in fresh coats. ..."
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