greatcoat

Example Sentences

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The king, wearing the uniform of the Marshal of the Royal Air Force, including a grey greatcoat against the cold, laid a wreath featuring 41 open-style fabric poppies.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2023

The two minutes' silence that falls after Big Ben sounds sees faces long with memory and grief, none more so than the King, a single poppy blazing out from the blue-grey lapel of his greatcoat.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2023

Not to mention Sergio Hudson’s way with proportion, seen in tone-on-tone red trousers with just a bit of flare, matching turtleneck, sweeping greatcoat and belt with a big circular gold buckle.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

Along with everyone else, the Coens had admired Thewlis’s performance as Johnny, the acerbic prophet of doom in Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked, in which he stalked the streets of London in an undertaker’s greatcoat.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2017

Millard removed his greatcoat and threw it into the weeds by the side of the road, making himself invisible.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs