wooden overcoat

English

Noun

wooden overcoat (plural wooden overcoats)

1. Alternative form of wooden coat
   • 1999, David Ireland, The chosen, page 176:

     She had no religious education, had never seen the inside of a church until Granny put on the wooden overcoat.

   • 2009, Joanne Cucinello, The Moon is Still Yellow:

     Instead we gathered, the five of us, around your wooden overcoat to cry and weep remembering how in childhood we made you promise not to die.