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Dust coat   /dəst koʊt/   Listen
Dust coat

noun
1.
A loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles.  Synonyms: duster, gabardine, gaberdine, smock.






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"Dust coat" Quotes from Famous Books



... little frock of pink linen, with a sailor collar of fine white embroidery, and a big black velvet bow at her throat. She wore no hat but her golden hair was partly confined by a band of black velvet. She had a light dust coat of pongee silk, though Jim had told her there was a warmer coat in the car ...
— Patty's Suitors • Carolyn Wells

... dust coat you're wearing, Mr. Cavanagh," said the American; "it gives me a great notion. I'm afraid I'll ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer

... the terrace again, and along it to the further end where at a touch from the Baron's chauffeur the great car shivered and chuckled. "Those are the lights of Harwich, I suppose," said the secretary, pulling on his dust coat. "How still and peaceful it all seems. There may be other lights within the week, and the English coast a less tranquil place! The heavens, too, may not be quite so peaceful if all that the good Zepplin promises us comes true. By the ...
— His Last Bow - An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... the window-sill, and, thrusting his hands into the pockets of the long, grey dust coat he was wearing, made a ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... was speaking I saw a tourist at another table, dressed in a long dust coat and wearing monstrous goggles that covered the entire upper half of his face and made him look like a frog, lean forward as if to catch every word. Nyoda is perfectly stunning in her motor suit and I couldn't blame the man ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey



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