surtout

Meanings

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   noun

   historical: a man's close-fitting overcoat, often cut like a frock coat

   He buttoned his dark surtout before stepping into the winter rain.

Borrowed from French surtout, literally 'over all' (sur 'over' + tout 'all'). French used the word for an outer covering worn over everything else, and English adopted it for a man's fitted overcoat in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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