Definitions

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  • adjective Wearing a raincoat.

Etymologies

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raincoat +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • The public neither knows nor cares about the arcane fit between Labour's general, executive and campaign committees in the constituencies, but unless the party gets the procedure right, the public will never hear its message – and the caricature of members as ageing, raincoated and procedurally obsessed will persist.

    Ed Miliband: The long and winding road | Editorial 2011

  • The public neither knows nor cares about the arcane fit between Labour's general, executive and campaign committees in the constituencies, but unless the party gets the procedure right, the public will never hear its message – and the caricature of members as ageing, raincoated and procedurally obsessed will persist.

    Ed Miliband: The long and winding road | Editorial 2011

  • But wait, maybe that black raincoated figure was Gail.

    Great Dixter-Finale « Fairegarden 2010

  • What a Lovely Day -- If You Were a DuckThree raincoated ex-presidents (including the honoree), President Bush and a crowd apparently made up of 30,000 umbrellas turned up in Little Rock last week for the opening of Bill Clinton's library.

    NEWSMAKERS 2007

  • Our workshop participants chuckle as they picture sleazy, raincoated figures pulling Sexism in School and Society from a shelf, turning to the chapter on curriculum in the hope of something sexy, and tossing the book aside in frustration.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • Our workshop participants chuckle as they picture sleazy, raincoated figures pulling Sexism in School and Society from a shelf, turning to the chapter on curriculum in the hope of something sexy, and tossing the book aside in frustration.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • Our workshop participants chuckle as they picture sleazy, raincoated figures pulling Sexism in School and Society from a shelf, turning to the chapter on curriculum in the hope of something sexy, and tossing the book aside in frustration.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • As such her father was in touch with the KGB, whose black-raincoated agents appeared at the house from time to time to remind him to report all unpatriotic activity within his purview.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

  • On the Sha Tin Road Robert Armstrong was looking down at the corpse of John Chen as raincoated police rewrapped it in its blanket, then carried it through the gawking crowds to the waiting ambulance.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • On the Sha Tin Road Robert Armstrong was looking down at the corpse of John Chen as raincoated police rewrapped it in its blanket, then carried it through the gawking crowds to the waiting ambulance.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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