Dictionary

ulster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈʌlstə/
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Etymology

Named after the Ulster Overcoat Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster), the original maker of this type of coat.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.
   • “That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 53:
   • I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster. 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 32:
   • Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg … 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, X [Uniform ed., p. 102]
   • “By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 97:
   • “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster. 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

Forms

Deriveds

ulstered · ulsterette

Relateds

Inverness · Macfarlane

Translations (4)

el μακρύ πανωφόρι (type of overcoat) · de Ulster (type of overcoat) · hu ulszter (type of overcoat) · fi ulsteri (type of overcoat)