How To Use Surcoat In A Sentence
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The sending was still trailing after her with a surcoat folded over its arm.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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She certainly changed her apparel and came forth in a ‘rich mantle and surcoat of purple velvet furred with ermines’.
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The former regiment wore a grey sleeveless surcoat and the latter regiment a black one.
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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.
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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
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Eventually, between the two of them, Sabriel shrugged on the underdress and surcoat, and submitted to a manicure and vigorous hair-brushing.
SABRIEL
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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.
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Long flowing overgarments, called surcoats, had begun to be worn by mail-clad knights in the mid-12th century.
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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
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The purple on his surcoat made his striking cobalt eyes seem deep violet.
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My attire that evening, as my father had requested, was a gown of ivory silk overlaid in a surcoat of deep grey.
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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
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The purple on his surcoat made his striking cobalt eyes seem deep violet.
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And if his surcoat was thinner than he might have wished, at least he had the arming doublet under his hauberk and the otter-trimmed cloak his mother's ladies had sewn for him.
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He wore the same sort of clothes as she did, complete with the surcoat of silver keys.
SABRIEL
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“He wears, he wore a long surcoat with a pomegranate design, and a wreath of juniper and greenthorn and oxtongue.”
Wildfire
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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
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The knights adopted unique designs painted on their shields and on the surcoats covering the armour (hence the term ‘coat of arms’).
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The deep green surcoat, woven of the finest silk, emphasized the splendor of his accouterments.
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They both had the same device upon the surcoats; it was a Virgin Mary embroidered on a field azure.
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Heraldic devices shifted from the surcoat to the material covering the plates, although armour of the third period was often decorated by etching and painting.
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In between are amazing helmets; ornate sword mountings and fittings; scroll paintings of samurai dressed to kill; and the colorful surcoats they traditionally wore over their armor.
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A pair of black armored guards, whose surcoats show a panther rampant on a sword, stand before the gates, attentive and ready, with spears held high.
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Chaucer,” by H.J. Todd, F.S.A., 1810, shows the anelace hanging from a button on the breast of his surcoat.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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I slipped out of the samite robe that was only slightly damp, and pulled on the dark blue dress and surcoat.
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I have seen him sometimes in summer, when to hear his people's suits, he would come into the gardens of Paris, clad in a camel's-hair coat, with a sleeveless surcoat of tiretaine, a cloak of black taffety round his neck, his hair well combed and without a quoif, and a white swansdown hat upon his head.
The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
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When I met with them they still wore their Bouren surcoats and armor.
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Eventually, between the two of them, Sabriel shrugged on the underdress and surcoat, and submitted to a manicure and vigorous hair-brushing.
SABRIEL
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His clothes were not precisely gaud. v, but the republican simplicity of Neuvamerica found them barbaric -- high-collared blouse, baggy blue trousers tucked into soft half boots, surcoat embroidered with twined snakes and flowers, a silver dragon brooch.
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