1 a piece of outdoor clothing that is worn over other clothes to keep warm or dry. Coats have sleeves and may be long or short:
a fur / leather coat * a long winter coat * to put on / take off your coat
seealsoDUFFELCOAT, GREATCOAT, HOUSECOAT, OVERCOAT, PETTICOAT, RAINCOAT, TRENCHCOAT
2 (AmE) (old-fashioned in BrE) a jacket that is worn as part of a suit
seealsoFROCKCOAT, MORNINGCOAT, TAILCOAT, WAISTCOAT
3 the fur, hair or wool that covers an animal's body:
a dog with a smooth / shaggy coat * animals in their winter coats (= grown long for extra warmth)
4 a layer of paint or some other substance that covers a surface:
to give the walls a second coat of paint
seealsoTOPCOAT, UNDERCOAT
IDIOMS
cut your coat according to your cloth (saying) to do only what you have enough money to do and no more:
We wanted to buy a bigger house than this but it was a case of cutting our coat according to our cloth.
verb [VN] [oftenpassive] ~ sth (with / in sth) to cover sth with a layer of a substance:
cookies thickly coated with chocolate * A film of dust coated the table. * The mask was coated in gold leaf.
seealsoSUGAR-COATED
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