car coat

noun

: a three-quarter-length overcoat

Examples of car coat in a Sentence

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Style with a pony hair car coat for texture, and ankle boots for height. Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025 Black feathers spilling out the front of a beige car coat at Brandon Maxwell. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025 In the age of open-air driving in the early 1900s, car coats were worn for practicality to weather the elements. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of car coat was in 1958

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“Car coat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/car%20coat. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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