Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wears a green coat, as a servant, a scholar at certain charity-schools in England, etc.
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Examples
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The unknown in the green-coat had been the Great Unknown!
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"No," said green-coat, "I mean where do you turn out the stag?"
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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