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outer garment

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Noun1.outer garmentouter garment - a garment worn over other garments  
overgarment
aba - a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs
cloak - a loose outer garment
coat - an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
garment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk"
izar - a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body
snowsuit - a child's overgarment for cold weather


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When she entered the Yew-tree Walk she could not see her husband; but the walk had bends, and she went, expecting to catch sight of his figure wrapped in a blue cloak, which, with a warm velvet cap, was his outer garment on chill days for the garden.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
I had been so proud of it that I insisted on wearing it without any outer garment.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
But for both Spenser and Shelley, in different fashions, external Beauty is only the outer garment of the Platonic spiritual Beauty, while to Keats in his poetry it is, in appearance at least, almost everything.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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