ulster
See also: Ulster
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Etymology
Named after the Ulster Overcoat Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster), the original maker of this type of coat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʌlstə/
Noun
ulster (plural ulsters)
- (clothing, men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 32:
- I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, X [Uniform ed., p. 102]:
- Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …
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