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  • n  a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter

  • In their midst a smiling, fragile-looking woman in a ruby-red suit and a black topcoat struggled to keep her footing.
  • You better go back and get your topcoat.
  • Not so popular were nine outfits for men, including a purple suede topcoat with shoes and hatband to match.
News & Articles

  • Heat buckles North Road in Southold
    Having a hard time taking the early summer heat? The North Road in Southold couldn’t either. With temperatures up into the 80s, a section of the concrete roadway beneath the asphalt topcoat in the eastbound lane just east of Boisseau Avenue buckled under the heat sometime early Tuesday, creating a rise of 8 to 10 [...]
    June 25, 2013 - The Suffolk Times
Quotes

  • Jerry Kramer in USA Today
    If Taylor went up to get a program, Huff was supposed to hit him. Wherever Taylor went, Huff went with him,Kramer said. "I remember sitting next to Jimmy on the way home and he had his topcoat on. He never took it off. He had it over his...
  • Evan Thomas in New York Times
    One of his biographers, Evan Thomas, writes: "He literally shrank, until he appeared wasted and gaunt. His clothes no longer fit, especially his brother's old clothes - an old blue topcoat, a tuxedo, a leather bomber jacket with the presidential...
  • Paul Hornung in Chicago Tribune
    Late in the game, Hornung says, "I found out my jaw was frozen. So help me, I could not speak. I had on a topcoat, a coat and a tie, but little underneath. I've never felt more helpless waiting for my jaw to thaw out."

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