long-coat

English

Noun

long-coat (plural long-coats)

1. Alternative form of longcoat
   1. A long overcoat.
      • 2002, Michael C. Howard, Kim Be Howard, Textiles of the Daic Peoples of Vietnam, →ISBN, page 35:

        Male religious specialists also wear a somewhat larger long-coat when performing religious ceremonies. This long-coat is dark blue or black and relatively plain.

      • 2011, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF, →ISBN:

        A figure dressed in a leather long-coat, goggles covering his eyes, walked past their car, saw Henry, and tipped his leather hat as he continued on toward the lake where a small complex of buildings serviced two long docks and a dozen moored boats.

      • 2012, Nick Lake, In Darkness, →ISBN, page 273:

        Hanging at the tent's entrance was his long-coat; he hung it there to remind himself, and others, of who they were dealing with.

   2. A long-haired variety of a breed.
      • 1894, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2724, page 67:

        It is expected that half of such females will contain recessive the character long-coat, and that half will be free from it, i. e., will produce only short-haired young.

      • 1998, Beverly Pisano, Chihuahuas, →ISBN, page 20:

        The long-coat Chihuahua is somewhat different from other long-coat dogs.

      • 2009, Barrie Hawkins, Twenty Wagging Tales: Our Year of Rehoming Orphaned Dogs, →ISBN:

        But there she was: a long-coat Shepherd.