"Wantum coatee," said Mr. Merwin to the sleepy-eyed Oriental who shuffled up with a grunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Town Like Alice]

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 pretensions to being useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

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 coatee; in this they parade, and in this they are supposed to fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Old Mrs. Fairfield appeared, carrying the boy in his little flannel coatee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden Party, and Other Stories] Reference

At this time a tall, lathy gentleman came in, wearing a most original cut coatee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

The matrons wear in addition a skin cut like the tails of the coatee formerly worn by our dragoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference

Having taken down these notes, Miss Silver sat back in her chair and picked up the pale pink coatee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Road]

I had taken off my coatee and boots, while I was waiting for the start, and went up the hill like a deer.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

Each of us had a coatee, made of common cloth; but we all carried hunting-shirts, to be worn as soon as we entered the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satanstoe] Reference

The coatee would be of no use to you, and you had best burn it, but the cloak, if you alter it, might be useful; or, if you cut it up, will make a cover for your bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

"You frighten me into fits almost; and if you did try to cane me you'd split that coatee of yours all up the back, or break your staylace, or do yourself some mischief, and --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

He tore off the portion of the bill on which the message was written, twisted off two of the buttons of his coatee, folded them in the paper, and took his place at the window again.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

Then he managed to crawl out of the rocky rift into which he had been thrown, and stood up, all ragged, with his red coatee split up the back, and one sleeve torn out at the shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldier Boy] Reference

There came the farmer on his tacky, in his coarse striped breeches, blue homespun coatee, and broad-brimmed hat; there, the whirling carriage, borne along by four showy bays, of the wealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference

In his swallow-tailed, brass-buttoned, old-fashioned coatee, Burns seemed a very comic sight to the nearest boys in blue until they found he really meant to join them and that he knew a thing or two of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference

Such inventions as to obligate, to concertize, to questionize, retiracy, savagerous, coatee (a sort of diminutive for coat) and citified appeared in the popular vocabulary and even got into more or less good usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary] Reference

His Majesty -- a short, stout man with blue eyes and aquiline nose, wearing a lace cocked hat and brown velvet coatee and high boots with spurs -- dismounted not twenty feet from the stage-coach, saying with great animation.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of Poor Richard] Reference

After we had completed our purchases, our friends went on board the corvette, and I was invited to meet them at dinner, where the aforesaid postmaster, a stout conch, with a square -- cut coatee and red cape and cuffs, was also a guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

There was a roar of laughter at this; and to hide my annoyance, I joined in, and was soon after spreading out jacket and coatee, striped trousers, belts, and slings, all of which, after being duly admired, were donned and exhibited in their proper places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East] Reference

She looked rather like a macaw, too, because her evening dress was of bright blue velvet and she was wearing over it a little coatee (Daphne’s word, of course, not mine) — of sulphur and orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saltmarsh Murders]

So put on your number one coatee and let's be off. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo] Reference

"The man and his wife expressed such sympathy that I did not hesitate to say: 'I want to get rid of my coatee, and of this cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

Let me put your hand into the breast of your coatee; then, if you keep your elbow tight against your body, it will keep it steady. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

"Before he could recover, I had stripped off his coatee and cloak; then I tied his hands and feet, fastened the gag firmly in his mouth, and dragged him in between two huts, where he would not be found till morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

No coatee nor jacket can be warm enough for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

He drew the bill from the pocket of his coatee.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain] Reference

His coatee fits horrid. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldier Boy] Reference