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Definition of Coattails
1. coattail [n] - See also: coattail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coattails
Literary usage of Coattails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"No one treads on our coattails any longer, and I do not expect ever to see again
the old days of anxiety and humiliation.. .. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS TO HIS ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Again, the parallel with the mid-19th century i- striking: the women's rights
advocates rode the coattails of the abolitionists much as the current ..."
3. The Bookman (1905)
""Tried to get out of the muss, but a baby was pulling my coattails, and a
four-year-old baby stood upon each foot, improving the pattern of my white pants ..."
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