overcoated

English

Etymology

overcoat + -ed

Adjective

overcoated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an overcoat.
    • Ambrose Bierce
      He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity []
    • 2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times:
      These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.

Verb

overcoated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of overcoat
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