English

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Etymology

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From overcoat +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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overcoated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an overcoat.
    • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, The Applicant:
      He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity []
    • 2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times[1]:
      These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.

Verb

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overcoated

  1. simple past and past participle of overcoat