coatless

English

Etymology

From coat +‎ -less.

Adjective

coatless (not comparable)

1. Without a coat; not wearing a coat.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 62:

     He was coatless and his thumbs were hooked negligently in a leather belt, thereby negativing a tendency to balance himself on an inclined plane backwards.

   • 2007 August 5, Nina Bernstein, “Safe From Persecution, Still Bearing Its Scars”, in New York Times‎:

     But since the first family arrived here in March, coatless and stunned to find what appeared to be a cold desert of leafless trees, the city has become a beacon to other Gatumba survivors around the country.

Derived terms

• coatlessness

Anagrams

• talcoses, Castelos, Catloses, scotales, solacest, Lacostes, ale-costs, lactoses, scatoles, Costales, alecosts