fur-coated

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English

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Etymology

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From fur coat +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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fur-coated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a fur coat.
    • 1904, Gene Stratton-Porter, “Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heart-ache and Black Jack Drops Out”, in Freckles, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 286:
      Higher and higher came the head, a long, heavy, fur-coated body rose, now half, now three fourths out of the water.
    • 2005, Anthony Slide, “Malcolm Lowry’s Silent Film Connection: Margerie Bonner”, in Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film, Lanham, Md., Toronto, Ont., Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 65:
      I always found it extremely difficult to believe that this somewhat regal, fur-coated lady walking around Beverly Hills could have been married to Malcolm Lowry and lived for years with him in a shack.
    • 2013, Mary Kay Andrews [pseudonym; Kathy Hogan Trocheck], Christmas Bliss, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 225:
      We worked our way through the throng of fur-coated women and little girls dressed in their Christmas best red velvet frocks and patent leather Mary Janes, all of them waiting to enter the fairyland-looking Palm Court.