(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
(2) "It is a blue overcoat, made by Gieves & Hawkes , and their label is on the inside pocket," he says.
(3) Later, in the Adelphi's huge tearoom, the leaders of the overcoat brigade compared everything from songwriting styles to their appearances in photos (Morrissey's chin grows larger, Mac's recedes – both are horrified by the results).
(4) Outside a block of humble flats on Centre Street, two women in long overcoats jump out of a taxi, avoiding the torrents of rainwater pouring along the gutter as they carry a large plastic bucket.
(5) Photos of the event show Wilson in sandals, a short-sleeved shirt, and really quite short shorts while the gentlemen of the press (and they are all men) cluster around in ill-fitting suits and, bizarrely, overcoats.
(6) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.
(7) Plastic-covered mattresses were almost completely free from mites, but foci were found on soft furnishings and on the jackets and overcoats of hospital workers.
(8) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
(9) We are given mouldy overcoats that are so damp they're virtually liquid, and a cup of Soviet coffee – coffee with no coffee in it, made from barley.
(10) Vincent “was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs of shoes, three overcoats, and had appeared on American Bandstand ”.
(11) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
(12) Someone has spied him, bundled in an overcoat on the street outside.
(13) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(14) And he is keen to avoid misunderstanding, for the House abounds with overcoats of lesser quality.
(15) His scarf is long and stripy, his trainers a kaleidoscope of fluorescent colour and when he takes off his knee-length overcoat it is clear he thinks of his body in the same way Michelangelo used to think of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
(16) Crombie, the fashion house whose trademark tailored overcoats have enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to bands such as the Specials, is in talks to buy its British rival Aquascutum.
(17) The adult daily intake of tin was about 17 mg per day in 1940, but it has now decreased to about 3.5 mg, due to improvements in technique of tinning with enamel overcoat and crimped lids to minimize exposure to tin and lead solder.
(18) Grainy, newsreel black-and-white, stiff shop awnings, sky as interesting as tea crisscrossed with overheard tram wires, one or two parked cars, shuffling overcoats and - a beacon in all of this - the exotic promise of the Scala cinema on the right, advertising The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.
(19) "I want to wear sweaters, a scarf, the overcoat, the whole thing, like a Winona Ryder movie.
(20) Clad in a smart overcoat and hat, Jackson, now 70, remains a formidable presence and a compelling speaker.
Ulster
Definition:
(n.) A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(2) The Ulster Unionist health spokesman added: "I am concerned that a high court judge has deemed that the minister of health has breached the ministerial code.
(3) One of Northern Ireland's most feared paramilitary hardmen has urged Ulster loyalists to keep out of Scotland's independence campaign because they could seriously damage the pro-UK cause.
(4) Sarah, in Belfast, tweeted : "Main Ulster bank in Belfast is queued out the door.
(5) The Ulster Unionist party leader, Mike Nesbitt, said: "Anyone who attacks a police officer, anyone who riots, anyone who engages in illegal street protest, is disrespecting the values of the union flag.
(6) After the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, George Hamilton, said he believed individual PIRA members were involved in the McGuigan murder, the Ulster Unionist party pulled out of the five-party coalition at Stormont in protest .
(7) In Ulster I was called Gerald all my life and there was no question of titles, ‘Your Grace this, Your Grace that’.
(8) Two Labour peers were suspended from their parliamentary party on Sunday while a third peer – an Ulster Unionist – was forced to resign pending inquiries into allegations that they broke parliamentary rules by offering to carry out work for cash.
(9) Sammy Duddy, who has died of a heart attack aged 62, was a founding member in 1971 of the largest loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
(10) Sir Edward Carson and other Ulster Unionists abstained.
(11) An RBS spokeswoman confirmed this is the case, adding: "The solution applied in NatWest and RBS has been successfully applied to Ulster Bank overnight, increasing our confidence that we will restore a full service by Monday."
(12) The suspensions, which were ordered during a a lengthy row over the decommissioning of IRA weapons, undermined Trimble’s position and paved the way for the DUP, then the more hardline unionist party, to displace the Ulster Unionists as Northern Ireland’s largest party.
(13) For instance, the always controversial Ken Livingstone used one of his first speeches as an MP in 1987 to name two Northern Ireland civil servants allegedly involved in "the buggery of young children at the Kincora boys' home", part of an suspected paedophile ring in Ulster.
(14) Who can complain if there are those who cherish the Irish language or who passionately support Ulster Scots culture?
(15) The existence of the report was revealed by Ulster Television's Insight team.
(16) In the prelude to the Good Friday agreement, the negotiators made ample use of what David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist leader, liked to call “constructive ambiguity”.
(17) The export of live horses from Ulster for slaughter has largely ceased since the establishment seven years ago of the horse abattoir at Saintfield, County Down, by a well-known British knackery firm.
(18) On the chief constable of Northern Ireland's last day in office, a damning new report has found that his predecessors in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) could have prevented the murder of one of their own officers during the Troubles.
(19) "I want to praise the bravery of the bus driver who had to deal with this frightening situation," the Ulster Unionist member said.
(20) A small but vocal group of hostile Ulster loyalist demonstrators were standing outside, blocking the station's heavily fortified gates, preparing to hurl abuse when he emerged.