Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loose, long overcoat made of heavy, rugged fabric and often belted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A type of long loose overcoat, worn by both men and women: originally made of frieze cloth in Ulster.
- noun [capitalized] Same as
Ulster king-at-arms .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from
Ulster , Ireland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A long, loose
overcoat of rough material.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island; six of Ulster's nine counties are in Northern Ireland
- noun loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sticking out of the breast pocket of her ulster was the big envelope containing her bid.
Tom Grogan Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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When I moved here first, I was forever being told I couldnt use terms like 'the province' 'the mainland' 'ulster' etc etc.
Interesting language for the DUP David Maxwell 2007
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There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by.
Sole Music 2010
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I had an apple with me in my hand, and as I stooped to drink I thrust it deep into the pocket of my ulster to be safe.
Movie Night 2010
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Her pro - longed absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.
Sole Music 2010
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I ordered her to say nothing, but to get a few things packed and my ulster ready.
Sole Music 2010
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O'Neill - you will be aware that many ulster Tories share your scepticism about devolution - but it is here to stay.
Twelve months on.... O'Neill 2008
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"If I were to ask you to describe your traveling companion I should in all probability learn that his features were very indistinct; he probably wore dark glasses, perhaps also a beard, a heavy coat -- an ulster, most likely -- and no doubt also a scarf wound tightly about his neck and chin."
PORNOGRAPHY 2010
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O'Neill - you will be aware that many ulster Tories share your scepticism about devolution - but it is here to stay.
Twelve months on.... O'Neill 2008
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I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
Sole Music 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word ulster
"The modern tenant may take in all the magazines, but he bends not the bow of Achilles. He occupies the place, but he does n't fill it, and he has guests from the neighbouring inns with ulsters and Baedekers." (p 46)
March 15, 2007
sionnach commented on the word ulster
Yeah, the brother-in-law had one o'them bleedin' ulsters somethin' shocking. Wasn't he after perforating it at Thanksgiving with that last piece o pie. But then they put him on this new purple pill, pravapriloprazosexycontin, and there hasn't been a bit of trouble. Though the sister tells me that they're after showing that ulsters came from Australia with those flesh-eating bird bacteria and so tis really an antibiotic he should be taking.
March 15, 2007
john commented on the word ulster
"It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day."
July 6, 2007
seanahan commented on the word ulster
Plus one for John for quoting Gatsby.
July 7, 2007
dailyword commented on the word ulster
Holmes would wear this sometimes.
June 22, 2012