DCHP-2

blanket coat DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.

  See also: point-blanket coat  

  • 1761  (1901)  [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.