noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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These gangs were thirty- and forty-strong, youths in long black overcoats and white knotted scarves, like Sid Field.
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That evening Uncle Allen bought a pair of spats and put $ 5 down on a black overcoat with a velvet collar.
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He was wearing a peaked cap of brown leather and a long black overcoat .
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Now he sits hunched over on the couch, wearing a roomy black overcoat with a pack of Marlboros in one pocket.
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From pink tutu to black overcoat ?
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Unhooked a smart black overcoat with a velvet collar.
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A man in a black overcoat swung an axe.
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The man from the newspaper wore a black trilby hat and a long black overcoat .
heavy
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A very tiring job it was, particularly in winter, when you had a heavy overcoat on.
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Even in the heavy overcoat , he looked like fitness itself.
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He wore a heavy blue overcoat and there was a hat on the table.
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The spooky goings-on happened when night watchman James Durham spotted a man with a heavy overcoat walking his black retriever.
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Nina faced a succession of sombre gentleman's wear - black evening suits, heavy overcoats .
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I was wearing a heavy overcoat and woollen gloves but the bust whipped its way right into my bones.
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He was putting on his heavy overcoat , asked again casually if he could have a look at the glass.
long
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These gangs were thirty- and forty-strong, youths in long black overcoats and white knotted scarves, like Sid Field.
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Magee clenched both fists in the pockets of his long leather overcoat .
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An old man in a long overcoat rummaged in a hotel's bins.
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He was wearing a peaked cap of brown leather and a long black overcoat .
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The man from the newspaper wore a black trilby hat and a long black overcoat .
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A man in a long dark overcoat .
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The searchlight remained fixed on us and a heavily muffled figure in a long overcoat and a steel helmet came towards us.
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The long overcoat dragging the sidewalk, my little suitcase clutched in my hand.
■ NOUN
tweed
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Doone followed us into the kitchen, removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit.
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Tessa wasn't even dressed - she was wearing his old tweed overcoat over her pyjamas.
■ VERB
take
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Markby, taking off his overcoat and sticking it haphazardly over a peg, grunted.
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He took off his overcoat and sat down at his desk, staring at the man.
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After a word of greeting to the nurse George busied himself unwrapping his scarf and taking off his overcoat .
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I'd have taken my overcoat if I'd known.
wear
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He wore a heavy blue overcoat and there was a hat on the table.
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They wore rough overcoats over their hand-woven cotton saris, and sensible shoes suitable for their work.
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In one of these reconstructions he wears Pound's overcoat .
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It was indeterminate, the weather, not cold enough to warrant wearing my overcoat , not warm enough for a jacket.
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He was wearing an overcoat and leant forward to protect himself against the biting wind.
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He did not put it on until he was sure that Reagan was going to wear his overcoat .
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Bob perched on a bar stool, still wearing his overcoat .
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Now he sits hunched over on the couch, wearing a roomy black overcoat with a pack of Marlboros in one pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A crew-cut woman in dance tights and a big overcoat nodded off in the corner.
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An old man in a long overcoat rummaged in a hotel's bins.
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He had no helmet, no overcoat , no weapon and no boots.
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He had put on his overcoat and was pulling the collar up about his ears.
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He was wearing a scarf, an overcoat , and a gray fedora hat.
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Jimmy and Cardiff both saw Rohmer reach into the inside of his overcoat .
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Peter sat in the back of the car with Sebastian held beneath his overcoat .
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With time to kill at the airport, I occupied myself smirking at travelers struggling with overcoats.