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overclothes

[ oh-ver-klohz, -klohthz ]

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. clothing worn outside other garments.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overclothes1

First recorded in 1855–60; over- + clothes
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Big Coat Energy,” The Boston Globe wrote of a coat that had the unanticipated, if temporary, effect of making overclothes the talk of Washington.

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Brockway found a grimy suit of overclothes and took off his coat.

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But when they quit he climbed down, took off his overclothes, folded them carefully and carried them away with him.

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Then he had a flitting glimpse of a man in grimy overclothes scrambling terror-frenzied from beneath the Rosemary.

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I’ve been sent to look for her with these overclothes and umbrella. 

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