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English
Etymology
over- + coat
Pronunciation
Noun
overcoat (plural overcoats)
- A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
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garment
- Arabic: مِعْطَف (ar) m (miʕṭaf)
- Moroccan Arabic: كبوط (kabbūṭ)
- Armenian: վերարկու (hy) (verarku), պալտո (hy) (palto)
- Azerbaijani: palto (az)
- Belarusian: паліто́ n (palitó)
- Bulgarian: балтон m (balton), палто́ (bg) n (paltó)
- Burmese: လောင်းကုတ်အင်္ကျီ (my) (laung:kut-angkyi)
- Catalan: abric (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 外套 (zh) (wàitào), 大衣 (zh) (dàyī)
- Czech: kabát (cs) m
- Danish: frakke n, overfrakke c
- Dutch: overjas (nl) f or m
- Esperanto: palto, (plimalpli genulonga kaj kun butonoj) surtuto
- Estonian: mantel (et)
- Finnish: päällystakki (fi), palttoo (fi)
- French: pardessus (fr) m, manteau (fr) m
- Galician: abrigo (gl) m, gabán m
- Georgian: პალტო (ṗalṭo)
- German: Mantel (de)
- Greek: πανωφόρι (el) n (panofóri), παλτό (el) n (paltó)
- Hindi: ओवरकोट (hi) m (ovarkoṭ), लबादा (hi) m (labādā)
- Hungarian: felöltő (hu)
- Icelandic: yfirhöfn (is) f
- Irish: cóta mór m, casóg mhór f
- Italian: soprabito (it) m, cappotto (it) m
- Japanese: オーバーコート (ōbākōto), 外套 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō)
- Kazakh: пальто (palto)
- Korean: 외투 (ko) (oetu)
- Kyrgyz: пальто (palto)
- Latvian: mētelis m
- Lithuanian: paltas m
- Macedonian: капут m (kaput)
- Middle English: surcote
- Mongolian: пальто (mn) (palʹto)
- Navajo: éétsoh
- Norman: grand' câsaque f, cache-mînséthe f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frakk (no) m
- Persian: پالتو (fa) (pâlto)
- Plautdietsch: Äwarock m
- Polish: płaszcz (pl) m, palto (pl) n
- Portuguese: sobretudo (pt) m
- Romanian: pardesiu (ro) n, palton (ro) n
- Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó), шине́ль (ru) (šinɛ́lʹ) (military)
- Rwanda-Rundi:
- Kinyarwanda: ikote
- Scottish Gaelic: còta-mòr m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: огртач m
- Roman: ogrtač (sh) m
- Slovak: kabát m
- Slovene: plašč (sl) m
- Spanish: abrigo (es) m
- Swahili: dagla (sw)
- Swedish: kappa (sv) c, överrock (sv) c, ytterrock (sv) c
- Tagalog: gaban, hindaramit
- Tajik: палто (palto)
- Turkish: palto (tr)
- Ukrainian: пальто́ (uk) n (palʹtó)
- Uzbek: palʼto
- Vietnamese: áo măng tô, áo choàng (vi)
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Verb
overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)
- (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.
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