duffel coat
See also: duffel-coat
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Etymology edit
After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel coats were made.
Noun edit
duffel coat (plural duffel coats)
- A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
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- → French: duffel coat, duffel-coat, duffle-coat
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hooded coat made from duffel
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duffel coat m (plural duffel coats)
- Alternative spelling of duffel-coat