Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, loose overcoat with a detachable cape having a round collar.
- noun The cape of such an overcoat.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In inverness, the punters in the hall lapped it up, and I suspect all ill get on the net from nat bloggers is the usual mince about me being a unionist stooge for rasing it here.
Mahatma Macaskill Alan Smart 2009
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Mai frend ses ai nawt knead a wawm jakkit, butt(!) if ai am gowing tu Skottishland (inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundedin) – u fink ai wil knead wun?
And exactly where were you last night? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I could even have gone as a branch delegate and thus only had to pay Hotel fees etc. but even then, it's the price of inverness accommodation that's so wild….
Next stop - Inverness Jeff 2009
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September 27, 2008 at 2:23 pm haddock inverness salmon jello
Intervention cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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He asked about work and my love life (ever the gossip queen), and then in the next text said I should get my arse up to inverness and see him.
Chilled out girlie kisobel 2003
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With his hands thrust deep in the sack-like pockets of his inverness he drifted from treasure to treasure -- uninvited, from room to room -- like some rudderless craft.
The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921
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Pulling a magnifying-glass from one bulging pocket of his inverness, Dr. Lepardo went peering over the writing desk, passing with a grunt from the bloodstained paper bearing the name of Séverac Bablon to the other documents and books lying there; to the pigeon-holes; to the chair; to the rug; to the body.
The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921
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Simons opened it quickly, admitting a most strange old gentleman -- tall and ramshackle -- who was buttoned up in a chess-board inverness; whose trousers frayed out over his lustreless boots like much-defiled lace; whose coat-sleeves, protruding from the cape of his inverness, sought to make amends for the dullness of his footwear.
The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921
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Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress, wearing a stained inverness cape, bent in two from incredible age, totters across the room, his hands fluttering.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The fitful flash of the match disclosed the rough furniture of a kitchen; the brick flooring and his wet inverness lay cold at Armitage's back.
The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906
chained_bear commented on the word inverness
Formerly the Duke of Chartres.
September 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word inverness
She's talking about the ship.
September 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word inverness
Right. Not the city.
September 7, 2008
rolig commented on the word inverness
The quality of being inver; also known as inversion or invership.
September 7, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word inverness
Also, a female invern.
September 7, 2008
rolig commented on the word inverness
Yeah, I know, ptero, but many women consider "inverness" to be demeaning.
September 7, 2008