duffel coat

See also: duffel-coat

English

Alternative forms

duffle coat

Etymology

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

Noun

duffel coat (plural duffel coats)

A warm, hooded coat, made from duffel, fastened with toggles.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  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.

Related terms

duffel bag

Descendants

→ French: duffel coat, duffel-coat, duffle-coat

Translations

hooded coat made from duffel

Basque: trenka
Catalan: trenca (ca) f
Czech: duffelcoat m
Danish: duffelcoat c
Dutch: duffelcoat (nl) m, duffel (nl) m, montycoat (nl) m, houtje-touwtjejas (nl) m or f
Estonian: duffelmantel
Finnish: duffelitakki (fi), duffeli (fi)
French: duffel-coat (fr) m, duffel coat (fr) m, duffle-coat (fr) m
German: Dufflecoat (de) m, Düffelmantel m
Hungarian: düftinkabát
Italian: montgomery (it) m
Japanese: ダッフルコート (daffurukōto)
Manx: cooat duffyl m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: duffelcoat m, dyffelcoat m, duffeljakke m or f
Polish: budrysówka f
Portuguese: canadiana (pt) f
Russian: дафлко́т (ru) m (daflkót)
Spanish: trenca f
Swedish: duffel (sv) c
Ukrainian: да́флкот m (dáflkot)

Anagrams

duffle coat

French

Noun

duffel coat m (plural duffel coats)

Alternative spelling of duffel-coat

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