short-coat

short-coat (plural short-coats)

1. (historical, mostly plural) The shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.

short-coat (third-person singular simple present short-coats, present participle short-coating, simple past and past participle short-coated)

1. (transitive) To dress in short-coats.
   • 1885, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 1, page 85:

     Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated.