blanket coat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a warm, usually short coat made of heavy blanket cloth, scarlet, blue, gray, or white, often decorated by needlework at the seams or with fringes.

Quotations

1761

[He wore] a molton, or blanket coat.

1876

The Canadian "blanket-coats" . . . are admirable in a dry frosty atmosphere. . . .

1955

One of them . . . ejected a fellow in a blanket coat who was about to demolish the clerk's table.