How To Use Coatee In A Sentence
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a strangely grotesque object, that, in the semi-darkness, somewhat resembled a human figure, but proved to be the tarnished uniform worn by the old officer -- coatee, helmet, sword and belts gorgeous with ornamentation, a pair of pistols with silver butts, and a small flag of faded silk and gilt stuff were grouped over a gold embroidered saddle and tarnished shabrack of Indian work.
The Dark House A Knot Unravelled
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For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil.
Desert Love
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Having taken down these notes, Miss Silver sat back in her chair and picked up the pale pink coatee.
Lonesome Road
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The infantry of our own army -- the successors of those noble fellows that walked across Spain -- have no better covering for their backs than the scanty and useless coatee; in this they parade, and in this they are supposed to fight.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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Such inventions as to obligate, to concertize, to questionize, retiracy, savagerous, coatee (a sort of diminutive for coat) and citified appeared in the popular vocabulary and even got into more or less good usage.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary
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Alex FouldsDevelopment director, Southern Railway• On seeing the crocheted apple cosies in G2 (Crafts, 23 May), who can have failed to be reminded of the fetching "Shawl-Coatee for Winter Turnip" in the Practice and Fury of Knitting chapter of And Now All This by Sellar and Yeatman (1932)?
Letters: Brighton early
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She took with her only what a native woman of good class would take; she wore a faded old blue and white chequered sarong with a white coatee.
A Town Like Alice
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No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some pretensions to being useful.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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Wantum coatee," said Mr. Merwin to the sleepy-eyed Oriental who shuffled up with a grunt.
More Toasts
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The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy.
4.50 From Paddington
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Such inventions as to obligate, to concertize, to questionize, retiracy, savagerous, coatee (a sort of diminutive for coat) and citified appeared in the popular vocabulary and even got into more or less good usage.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary
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The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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As if the world were his, he swung into the bar, where he found two yokels listening to the half-drunken lamentations of a middle-aged, plum-cheeked fellow in a shabby blue livery coatee with shabbier gilt buttons; and even while he was giving his order for a glass of mild, and
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
