gray coat

Southern Civil War uniform

A gray coat is simply a coat that is gray in color.

The phrase occasionally appears in historical contexts referring to Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, whose uniforms were gray: The gray coats advanced across the field.

More often it's just a description of outerwear: She grabbed her gray coat on the way out.

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American Civil War military allegiance

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Colored outerwear for authorities

Union soldier · Yankee · boys in blue · Federal troops · Union forces

coat color

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British soldier, 1770s

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Family

gray, coat, grey, grays, greys, grayed, greyed, graying, greying

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G