(n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(2) Where is Shakespeare in all this – is he redcoat or rebel?
(3) In contrast with Breaking Bad's murderous drug kingpin and Mad Men's philandering ad executive, Woodhull is a good man who, in 1778, becomes a spy in order to help George Washington defeat the dastardly British redcoats.
(4) Even the redcoats struggled to raise spirits in the main hall and at the fringe; with just eight MPs and only a handful of recognisable big names, the same people kept popping up to say much the same thing as before at different events throughout the day.
(5) His work continued to be republished intermittently up to the age of the Beatles' first LP, when the redcoat tunics he so much admired were sold as ironic clouts in Carnaby Street.
(6) One piece I watch in the packed theatre is based on a classic piece of north Indian folk theatre, poking fun at a clownish British redcoat who attempts to have his wicked way with a local girl.
(7) Headteacher, Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat Church of England Secondary School, Tower Hamlets, London.
(8) In the preface to the book (written in Salem after the Hawthornes had been evicted by Emerson for back rent), Hawthorne wrote with exquisite beauty and feeling of the place as a shrine of half-ruined memories and mute witnesses; not just redcoats and minutemen, but also the Indians who had occupied the land before the affray.