bavaroy

English

Etymology

French Bavarois (“Bavarian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbævəɹɔɪ/

Noun

bavaroy (plural bavaroys)

1. (obsolete) A kind of cloak or surtout.
   • [1716], [John] Gay, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC:

     Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bavaroy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)