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NOUN
  1. a loose outer coat usually of rich material
  2. a tunic worn over a knight's armor

How To Use surcoat In A Sentence

  • The sending was still trailing after her with a surcoat folded over its arm. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • She certainly changed her apparel and came forth in a ‘rich mantle and surcoat of purple velvet furred with ermines’.
  • The former regiment wore a grey sleeveless surcoat and the latter regiment a black one.
  • The man himself was obviously a Knight as could be deduced from the white surcoat emblazoned with the golden crest of a hawk covering the suit of chainmail he wore.
  • For a moment, she stood like a stringed puppet at rest, then she flung herself against his chest, feeling the soft fabric of his surcoat. SABRIEL
  • Eventually, between the two of them, Sabriel shrugged on the underdress and surcoat, and submitted to a manicure and vigorous hair-brushing. SABRIEL
  • She saw as well a slender young woman with shoulder length dark brown hair and pale blue eyes wearing a long brown tunic and a black surcoat intricately embroidered along its cuffs and hem.
  • Long flowing overgarments, called surcoats, had begun to be worn by mail-clad knights in the mid-12th century.
  • Light armor and weaponry, surcoats and banners with the Boarsden blazon for disguise, everyone looking spruce and stalwart. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • The purple on his surcoat made his striking cobalt eyes seem deep violet.
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