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Bluecoat

noun

A person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor).

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"Bluecoat" Quotes from Famous Books

... until, looking back, she no longer saw the bluecoat for the intervening crowds. After several slight mistakes in the way, she descried ahead of her a large sign painted on the wall of a three-story ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... Lamb, who tells the story, which is a true one, was himself one of these Bluecoat boys. Among his schoolfellows was this boy, my present moral hero. He was dull and taciturn, and no favourite with the other lads; but no one could bring any charge of improper conduct against him. There was one thing, however, about him which none of the other boys could understand. He always lingered ...

— Amos Huntingdon • T.P. Wilson

... my place, and have some dinner before you start,' said Mr Toots. 'My cook's a most respectable woman—one of the most motherly people I ever saw—and she'll be delighted to make you comfortable. Her son,' said Mr Toots, as an additional recommendation, 'was educated in the Bluecoat School,' and blown up ...

— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens

Words linked to "Bluecoat" : someone, person, soul, somebody, individual, mortal