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Definition: Surcoat |
SurcoatNoun1. A tunic worn over a knight's armor. 2. A heavy coat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "surcoat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Surcoat \Sur"coat`\, noun. [from Old English expression surcote, Old French surcote. See Sur-, and Coat, and compare to Overcoat.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SurcoatSynonyms: greatcoat (n), overcoat (n), topcoat (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
From about the 12th century, knights wore long and flowing surcoats over their armor, which were frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer. They usually extended to about mid-calf, had slits in the bottom front and back, and were sleeved or sleeveless. Historians believe that surcoats were worn to protect chain mail from water. It is also likely that they were used to identify the knight, especially helpful if he was wearing a helm (that covers the face).
(todo: Find an image of knight wearing a surcoat; need something on the female medieval surcoat)
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Surcoat |
| English words defined with "surcoat": Cyclas. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "surcoat": overcoat. (references) |
| "Surcoat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Surcoat" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
surcoat | 7 |
sideless surcoat | 3 |
pattern surcoat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "surcoat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | туника носена върху броня, къса горна дреха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wappenrock (tabard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μανδύασ ιππότου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétoldalt viselhető kabát (reversible surcoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 陣羽" (battle surcoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じ"ばおり (battle surcoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urcoatsay верхний одежда. (various references) เสื้อคลุม (gown). (various references) zırh üzerine giyilen cüppe, pardesü (topcoat), cüppe (cassock, chasuble, frock, gown, robe, surplice, tabard, vestment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "surcoat": surcoats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: turacos. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: actors, castor, costar, courts, scrota, soucar, tarocs, turaco. | |
-2 letters: actor, arcus, ascot, autos, carts, coast, coats, costa, court, crust, curst, orcas, ratos, roast, rotas, roust, routs, scart, scaur, scour, scout, scuta, stour, sutra, tacos, taroc, taros, toras, torcs, torus, tours. | |
-3 letters: acts, arco, arcs, arts, auto, cars, cart, cast, cats, coat, cors, cost. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: courants, curators, outraces, surcoats, touracos, turacous. | |
+2 letters: abductors, accouters, accoutres, actuators, adductors, aeroducts, atrocious, autocrats, autocross, calutrons, carryouts, castoreum, coauthors, coruscant, coruscate, courantes, courantos, courtesan, croustade, customary, educators, fractious, nectarous, obscurant, ocularist, outcapers, outcharms, outcrawls, outrances, roughcast, suctorial, suctorian, sugarcoat, turbocars, turncoats. | |
+3 letters: abductores, accusatory, acquisitor, alacritous, backcourts, cartouches, castoreums, coadjutors, coastguard, cocurators, cofeatures, corrugates, coruscated, coruscates, cotylosaur, courantoes, courtesans, courtyards, croustades, cutthroats, eucaryotes, excusatory, furcations, goatsucker, incubators, nucleators, obscurants, ocularists, osculatory, outcharges, outercoats, outmarches, outreaches, peculators, plutocrats, portulacas, raconteurs, roughcasts, rusticator, scoutcraft, soundtrack, speculator, subcordate, suctorians, sugarcoats, supraoptic, touchmarks, truckloads, ultrasonic, unactorish, undercoats. | |
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