mink coat

English

A mink coat

Etymology

Compound of mink +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mink coat (plural mink coats)

1. A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people.
   • 1988, Sylvia Harney, Married Beyond Recognition: A Humorous Look at Marriage, page 2:

     We think we will in no time parlay our abundant love into abundant riches of the mink coat type, so it comes as a major surprise that we could be so poor... for so long.

   • 2004, Alice Bach, Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era, page 106:

     Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat. His wife, Nixon boasted, did not own a mink coat, but rather she owned 'a respectable Republican cloth coat...'

Translations

coat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貂皮大衣 (diāo pí dàyī)

• Czech: norek (cs) m, norkový kožich m
• Finnish: minkkiturkki (fi)
• German: Nerzmantel (de) m
• Hungarian: nerc (hu), nercbunda (hu)
• Polish: futro z norek n
• Russian: но́рковая шу́ба f (nórkovaja šúba)