What's the difference between greatcoat and paletot?

Greatcoat


Definition:

  • (n.) An overcoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Berlin was bitterly cold at that time in winter, but it was not just the chill that made him shiver under his greatcoat.
  • (2) One key detail that both Leigh and Thompson get right is the ever-present cornflower blue necktie Ruskin wore, knowing that it highlighted his blue eyes, along with a brown-velvet-collared greatcoat.
  • (3) "This is very much how I remember the 1970s," says Gatiss to director Jorge Grau over footage of a corpse in a greatcoat staggering past a Ford Anglia.
  • (4) Somebody kissed the gold of his ring; a few lit pipes; most, in their greatcoats, huddled, waiting for sleep.

Paletot


Definition:

  • (n.) An overcoat.
  • (n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surgical treatment, as well as for the cases of bigger dimensions, has mostly availed itself of an elementary technique (simple approach, apposition "en paletot" splitting of the fasciae).

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