ˈriding-coat
[riding vbl. n.]
A coat worn in riding, esp. an overcoat to protect the rider from wet.
| 1507 Accs. High Treas. Scot. IV. 17 To be ane gret riding cote. 1536 Wardr. Acc. Hen. VIII in Archaeologia IX. 245 For making of a ryding coote of grene clothe. a 1637 B. Jonson Discoveries Wks. 1641 II. 109 His modesty like a riding Coat, the more it is worne, is the lesse car'd for. 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1192/4 A tall slender man,..with a white hat, and a white riding Coat. 1729 Swift Direct. Serv. v. Wks. 1751 XIV. 67 When you carry your Master's Riding-Coat in a Journey, wrap your own in it. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. i, I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots. 1824–9 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 301 She escaped by putting on the riding-coat of a groom. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge i, A man wrapped in a loose riding-coat with huge cuffs. |