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Definition of Red-coated
1. Adjective. Used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-coated
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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