See Also: matchcoat(dictionary)

Nithsdale (iou) and matchcoat (iou)


Nithsdale (iou)



Nithsdale noun. E18.
[The Countess of Nithsdale, who enabled her Jacobite husband to escape from the Tower in 1716 disguised in her cloak and hood.]
Hist. A long hooded riding cloak fashionable in the 18th cent.

matchcoat (iou)



matchcoat noun. obsolete exc. Hist. Orig. matchco (pl. -os). M17.
[Virginia Algonquian matchkore, alt. by popular etym. as if from MATCH noun1, verb1 + COAT noun.]
A kind of mantle formerly worn by American Indians, orig. made of fur skins and later of coarse woollen cloth; the cloth used for this.