A formation analogous to bloodee, coachee, frockee, stickee, &c., and fortunately obsolete.
1775. Reference in Harper’s Magazine, 1883. (N.E.D.)
1788. Stolen…. One great Coatee of light gray Coating.—Maryland Journal, Feb. 22.
1795. Had on when he went away an old Green Coatee and Trowsers.—Runaway advt., Gazette of the U.S., Oct. 5.
1800. Ran-away, a Negro Man named Isaac. He had on and took with him a home-made lincy coattee, a callico roundabout jacket, two vestcoats, &c.—Lancaster (Pa.) Journal, Sept. 20.
1801. Ran away, an apprentice. Had on and took with him a claret coloured cloth coat, made in the Mononist fashion, a yellow nankeen coattee, &c.—Id., Aug. 29.
1805. Ran-Away, a German indented servant, named Peter Hartline;… had on a dark coloured coatee. The coatee is a little discoloured in the back.—Id., July 19.
1815. A young man dressed in a nankeen coatee and pantaloons.—Boston Weekly Messenger, Nov. 2.
1821. $20 Reward for a runaway apprentice, who “took with him a blue coattee and pantaloons.”—Pennsylvania (Harrisburg) Intelligencer, Jan. 5.
1835. The young gentlemen [in New-Orleans] were dressed in the French mode; that is, in elaborately embroidered coatees, and richly wrought frills.—Ingraham, ‘The South-West,’ i. 120.
1852. [He] made Sabbath coatees for his children of the worn out gowns of his wife.—“S.G.O.” in The Times, Nov. 12: ‘Letters,’ i. 388.
