topcoat
IPA: tˈɑpkoʊt
noun
- A light overcoat.
- A layer of paint or varnish etc. applied after the undercoat.
verb
- (transitive) To apply a topcoat to.
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Examples of "topcoat" in Sentences
- Nearby there's only a man slouching in a blue topcoat and tweed cap.
- In bed, he delivers his sermon in a whisper, formal like, as if wearing a topcoat.
- Nothing works better at getting ALL of the fur (Not just the topcoat) But, be prepared.
- Fast Five: Men's Vests When the winter winds blow, sandwich a warming wool vest between a heavy sweater and a topcoat.
- Q: I can't be bothered with a topcoat or a raincoat, which are too cumbersome for the car or when I'm on a short business trip on the plane.
- If you're interested in this season's ladylike clothes, try Jil Sander's tie jacket, Miu Miu's glamorous '40s-style topcoat or Thomas Tait's classic car coat.
- Mrs. Eisenhower appeared first at the door, followed immediately by the president, dressed in a camel hair topcoat over tan slacks and a sport coat, and wearing a soft brown hat, which he removed to wave at the crowd.
- Ideally, one would have a cover-up for every little occasion: a lined barn jacket for Saturday strolls, a tomboy topcoat for business lunches, a fur-trimmed cashmere number for fancy parties, a tomato-red swing coat for cocktails.
- Little did the district leaders know that a fl amboyant thirty-one-year-old miner in southern Illinois, a veteran of hunger marches on the nation's Capitol in Washington, DC, in 1894, would don a silk top hat, a Prince Albert topcoat, and an umbrella and declare himself "General" Alexander Bradley.
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