Usage examples (28)

• "Wantum coatee," said Mr. Merwin to the sleepy-eyed Oriental who shuffled up with a grunt.
• She took with her only what a native woman of good class would take; she wore a faded old blue and white chequered sarong with a white coatee.
• No soldier, who has been reduced to his coatee in a campaign, but must have sighed after his original smock-frock, or any other outer covering that had at least some...
• The infantry of our own army -- the successors of those noble fellows that walked across Spain -- have no better covering for their backs than the scanty and useless...