coat – English noun declension

English noun forms of coat

Noun: coat
Singularcoat
Pluralcoats

Sample Sentences

  • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar. [1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:]
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas. [1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:]
  • fresh coat of paint
  • Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonym: pelt
  • When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
  • a child in coats [1693, [John Locke], “§148”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:]
  • Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. [1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:]
  • She was sought by spirits of richest coat. [1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint:]
  • Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
  • Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. [1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.
3. Latin cotta
4. Old French cottebor.
5. Middle English cote
6. English coat
7. From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
8. Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”). See: Middle English Nouns 'cote', Latin Nouns 'cotta', German Nouns 'Kotze'.

Verbs referencing "coat"

Dutch Nouns koto.