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Redcoat   /rˈɛdkˌoʊt/   Listen
Redcoat

noun
1.
British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution).  Synonym: lobsterback.






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"Redcoat" Quotes from Famous Books



... been the only things for which they were dependent on outsiders. Browning's father was an English soldier, who, escaping from Braddock's massacre, deserted and settled in the highlands of Western Maryland,—as a place, we suppose, equally safe from the provost-martial of the redcoat and the tomahawk of the red man. It is curious to think of the great contrast between father and son: the one a British soldier of the day of strictest powder and pigtail; the other, a man who never wore ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various



Words linked to "Redcoat" :   soldier, lobsterback



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