blanket-coat

English
A blanket-coat (also called Mackinaw)

Alternative forms

Noun

blanket-coat (plural blanket-coats)

  1. A short heavy coat made of mackinaw.
    • 1917, William Le Queux, The Bomb-Makers:
      Then, getting into a thick blanket-coat, she pulled on her gloves and, taking up a small leather blouse-case, went out, closing the door noiselessly after her.
    • 1999, Jack Hanson, Wildgun:
      Even with his thick blanket-coat, he was soon wet through and shivering.
    • 2015, Oliver Onions, The Tower of Oblivion:
      The long arm she threw out thickened, rather surprisingly and very beautifully, up to its pit; and the man on the boat who had shown the solicitude about the collar of her blanket-coat had been quite a good judge of necks.
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