Definition of "hunting-coat" [hunting-coat]

• A coat worn by huntsmen, usually of some distinctive color, as scarlet or green. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Kennicott wore a brown canvas hunting-coat with vast pockets lining the inside, corduroy trousers which bulged at the wrinkles, peeled and scarred shoes, a scarecrow felt hat."
• "During their first autumn she had smiled over his affection for his hunting-coat, but now that the leather had come unstitched in dribbles of pale yellow thread, and tatters of canvas, smeared with dirt of the fields and grease from gun - cleaning, hung in a border of rags, she hated the thing."
• "Then he opened his hunting-coat, and his royal garments were visible."