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noun
Surcoat  n.  
1.
A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer. "A long surcoat of pers upon he had.." "At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn."
2.
A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.





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"Surcoat" Quotes from Famous Books



... represented as carrying an instrument exactly similar to this charge as it is usually drawn. The date of this painting is 1340. This is probably about the date of the painted glass window in the choir of Tewkesbury Abbey Church, where Robert Earl of Gloucester bears three of these clarions on his surcoat; and upon a careful examination of these, I was convinced that they were intended to represent instruments similar to that carried by the angel in ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 • Various
... the courtyard of that mighty fortress by that sturdy, hawk-faced man who had recognized me in the hermitage on Monte Orsaro. But he was no longer in armour. He wore a surcoat of yellow velvet, and his eyes were very kindly and affectionate when they rested on Galeotto and from Galeotto passed on ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... it a preux chevalier sitting under this verbal lens for his photograph, there might be difficulty in proceeding farther in this description; for though your knight of old seems to have been splendidly oblivious as to the needs of clean linen, and able to wear one surcoat and one suit of armor for any length of time without becoming repugnant to the nose of his lady when brought-into the opportunity for an embrace,—yet the heroes of this day have sore need of occasional aid from the washerwoman, and even the tailor becomes necessary for the replenishing ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford


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