vbl. sb. [f. COAT v. (and sb.)]
1. A layer of any substance spread over or covering a surface; = COAT sb. 9.
1770. Phil. Trans., LX. 194. The discharge from the inside coating.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), I. 69. The pinnace [had been] painted with white lead and oil, which last coating we think to be the most eligible.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., i. 17. A thin … coating of vegetation.
2. Clothing of the nature of a coat.
1798. Month. Mag., VI. 197. My blithe sister shall … dress thee in coatings of gold.
1813. Examiner, 4 April, 209/1. One’s thoughts as well as limbs seem enveloped in capes and coatings.
1834. Campbell, Life Mrs. Siddons, II. viii. 200. The babes, in their … long coating.
3. [f. the sb.] techn. Material for coats. (Cf. trousering, shirting, etc.)
1802. Naval Chron., VIII. 417. A large trunk, containing cloth, coating, stockings.
1846. M’Culloch, Acc. Brit. Empire (1854), I. 151. Kendal, celebrated for the manufacture of a peculiar description of coarse woollen goods called cottons, probably a corruption of coatings.
1883. Standard, 7 Sept., 7/2. Makers of worsted coatings are very busy.
