Dictionary

duffel coat en · NOUN

Etymology

After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel coats were made.

Meanings

1. A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.
   • Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Forms

Descendants

duffle-coat · duffel coat · duffel-coat

Relateds

duffel bag

Translations (29)

nb dyffelcoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · da duffelcoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · it montgomery (hooded coat made from duffel) · fr duffle-coat (hooded coat made from duffel) · es trenca (hooded coat made from duffel) · nl duffelcoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · fi duffelitakki (hooded coat made from duffel) · pt canadiana (hooded coat made from duffel) · ca trenca (hooded coat made from duffel) · nl duffel (hooded coat made from duffel) · uk да́флкот (hooded coat made from duffel) · nb duffeljakke (hooded coat made from duffel) · de Düffelmantel (hooded coat made from duffel) · de Dufflecoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · fr duffel coat (hooded coat made from duffel) · cs duffelcoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · gv cooat duffyl (hooded coat made from duffel) · pl budrysówka (hooded coat made from duffel) · fr duffel-coat (hooded coat made from duffel) · nl montycoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · ru дафлко́т (hooded coat made from duffel) · fi duffeli (hooded coat made from duffel) · et duffelmantel (hooded coat made from duffel) · hu düftinkabát (hooded coat made from duffel) · eu trenka (hooded coat made from duffel) · nl houtje-touwtjejas (hooded coat made from duffel) · ja ダッフルコート (hooded coat made from duffel) · nb duffelcoat (hooded coat made from duffel) · sv duffel (hooded coat made from duffel)