redingote

From French redingote, itself from English riding-coat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdɪŋɡəʊt/

redingote (plural redingotes)

1. (historical) A long coat or greatcoat for men. [from 18th c.]
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 140:

     In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte.

   • 2001, WG Sebald, Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 199:

     I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartoloměj Smečka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch-chain draped over it […]

2. A women's dress coat or long fitted coat with a flared skirt. [from 19th c.]
   • 1955 March 25, ‘Farewell with Fanfare’, Time:

     Mrs. Hobby, dressed in a brown and white silk redingote, blinked back tears as the President recalled their first meeting in London in 1942, when Oveta was commander of the WAAC (later the WAC).

Hobson-Jobson of English riding-coat.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.dɛ̃.ɡɔt/

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redingote f (plural redingotes)

1. frock coat
   • 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis‎, archived from the original on 27 May 2019:

     J’ai l’habitude de voir des gens riches, dehors. Mais ici, debout, touchant du bout des doigts son bureau, avec sa redingote dont les boutons étaient recouverts d’étoffe, avec sa chemise empesée qui ne le gênait pas, il m’écrasait de sa supériorité.

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• “redingote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.