a. [f. COAT sb. + -LESS.]

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  1.  Without a coat of arms.

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1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, Lacie’s Nobilitie, 112. I place him in this place coatelesse although I iudge he was a gentleman.

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1833.  Lamb, Elia, Blakesmoor in H. The coatless antiquary in his unemblazoned cell.

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  2.  Without a coat (garment).

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1850.  Kingsley, Alt. Locke, I. xxi. 298 (D.). Seven or eight sallow, starved beings … coatless, shoeless, and ragged.

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