Definition of lab coat
: a loose-fitting usually white coat with deep pockets that is worn in a laboratory or medical facility
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The bronze statue in the Capitol building shows a woman sitting sideways in a chair, wearing a starched lab coat over a skirt and high-heeled shoes.
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Babies rode in pouches, doctors stood in lab coats, and seniors stepped cautiously over the uneven ground.
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Wong still worries about seeing a lab coat on the rack during a fitting for a new show.
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His light-blue lab coat detaches simply at the waist, thanks to a row of buttons.
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One morning in the school’s herb lab, blue rubber gloves and a lab coat concealed Williams’s huge tattooed arms.
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At each stop the viewer has the opportunity to meet the people under the lab coats as Kamen and Colan ask the researchers to explain the methodologies, failures and breakthroughs that have defined their work.
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People assume a scientist is a white guy with a beard and lab coat.
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Each week, scientists in lab coats analyze dust samples collected from across Iran, looking for minute particles that could reveal possible cheating.
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First Known Use of lab coat
1960
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lab coat
medical Definition of lab coat
: a thin, loose, usually white, knee-length coat with deep pockets that is typically worn in a laboratory or medical office
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