Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large loose coat formerly worn by American Indians, originally made of fur skins matched and sewed together, and afterward of match-cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A coat made of match-cloth.
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Examples
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Having received plentiful supplies as a gift from the French, but entertaining the worst misgivings as to their artifices, the young officer began his return journey, during which, in spite of all trouble, he managed to pay a visit to Queen Aliquippa: I made her a present, he wrote, of a match-coat and a bottle of rum, which latter was thought much the best present of the two.
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Perceiving there was a man near the door I went out; the man had a tomahawk wrapped under his match-coat out of sight.
VIII. 1761, 1762 1909
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Were your people easy to fool, giving twelve deerskins for an old match-coat?
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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But in winter they carry them in the hollow of their match-coat at their back, leaving nothing but the child's head out. ''
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Some of his nearest of kin brings all the temporal estate he was possessed of at his death, as guns, bows and arrows, beads, feathers, match-coat, &c.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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Perceiving there was a man near the door I went out; the man had a tomahawk wrapped under his match-coat out of sight.
The Journal of John Woolman Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1871
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Perceiving there was a man near the door I went out; the man had a tomahawk wrapped under his match-coat out of sight.
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The nan\e of the kct or match-coat thrown over all, core -
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