riding coat

See also: ridingcoat and riding-coat

English

Alternative forms

• riding-coat, ridingcoat

Noun

riding coat (plural riding coats)

1. A garment originally designed as an outerwear for horseback riding.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Who could that be with Mr. Lorry—the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair—who must not be seen?

   • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 329:

     There was no mistaking that voice—it was Nicholas Temple's. I heard a laugh and an answer, the gate slammed, and Mr. Temple himself in a long gray riding-coat, booted and spurred, stood before me.

Descendants

• → French: redingote

Further reading

• riding coat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Samuel Johnson (1755 April 15) “RIDINGCOAT”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volumes II (L–Z), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton;  […], →OCLC, column 2.