Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Association still has, as well, a collection of relics of the Holy Cross, Dartmouth, and Brown games. In these cases the weather had less influence on the nature of the discovered articles. Instead of raincoats and umbrellas, the list includes large numbers of coat belts, gloves, and steamer rugs, as well as one fraternity...
Holy Cross: two steamer rugs, one blanket, one auto robe, one overcoat, one glove, one fur neckpiece, three coat belts...
Brown: one gentleman's fur coat, one ladies' coat, one field glass case, six coat belts, and one steamer...
With that, Sir John, who had discarded his kingly robes for a more conventional frock coat, slipped on an overcoat of large black and white checks, pulled a cloth cap down over his eyes, and walked towards the stage entrance...
Precedent gives this a portent. The "chummy roadster" definitely abolished the bustle, and Coles Phillips popularized the silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...