How do you use the word "coat" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "coat": The button on your coat is coming off. You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette.

Coat Meaning

/ˈkoʊ̯t/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

nounA covering of material, such as paint.

Sentence Examples

The button on your coat is coming off.

You burnt a hole in my coat with your cigarette.

The acid burned a hole in her coat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

cake surface

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She wore a heavy wool ____ to stay warm in the freezing weather.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Don't forget to wear your thickest ____ because it is cold ton.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor. Latin cotta Old French cottebor. Middle English cote English coat From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar." — 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

"Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas." — 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

"Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell." — 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

"a child in coats" — 1693, [John Locke], “§148”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

"Men of his coat should be minding their prayers." — 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:

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