Coat can refer to any one of the following:
- Coat, a layer of a certain substance, usually paint.
- Coat (animal), the natural fur coat of an animal.
- Coat (clothing), an article of clothing for humans.
- Coat (dog), the natural fur coat of a dog.
- Coat of arms, a heraldic design used to identify a nation, city, family, or individual.
- Dogcoat, an article of clothing for dogs.
Famous quotes containing the word coat:
“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it comes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)