bluecoat
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editbluecoat (plural bluecoats)
- (British, often attributive) A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code.
- This was a bluecoat school in my day.
- (US history) A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War
- 2009 January 18, Ralph Blumenthal, “Re-enactor Is Indicted in Shooting of a Yankee”, in New York Times[1]:
- The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry.
- (dated) A policeman
- 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie[2]:
- "The offices are up those steps," said the bluecoat.
Synonyms
edit- (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer
Translations
editsoldier in the Union army
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