Meaning of becoated | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of coated (“wearing a coat”).

not-comparable

Examples

“Just as the trio had sunk into their first forgetfulness, they were awakened by the sudden stoppage of the vehicle, a light⟳ at the door of an inn, and a party of rough discordant voices, bidding, however, a cordial farewell to a large, becoated, and ominous-looking stranger, who, in a broad Yorkshire dialect, wished his companions ‘a good noight,’ reminding them that he had paid his share⟳ of the reckoning.”

“Brothers mine, leave⟳ that sort⟳ of thing to the scented and vacuous dandies—the becoated and becollared tailors’ blocks who frequent such scenes, and whose loftiest ambition is to ogle the girls and obtain⟳ the reputation of a lady-killer.”

“The very cartoons of the popular press⟳ preach us sermons on usage. One in The New Yorker (22 Mar. 1982, p. 161) shows a becoated woman with arms akimbo and luggage packed addressing her husband, who is watching television with his feet on a footstool and his hand around a beer can: “You could care less? Don’t you mean⟳ you couldn’t care less? That kind of crummy English is why I’m leaving.””

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