SURTOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surtout mean? 

• SURTOUT (noun)
  The noun SURTOUT has 1 sense:

1. a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat

  Familiarity information: SURTOUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURTOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("surtout" is a kind of...):

greatcoat; overcoat; topcoat (a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter)

 Context examples 

Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went in, and found there a stoutish, middle-aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was now able to concentrate my attention on the group by the fire, and I presently gathered that the new-comer was called Mr. Mason; then I learned that he was but just arrived in England, and that he came from some hot country: which was the reason, doubtless, his face was so sallow, and that he sat so near the hearth, and wore a surtout in the house.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With this sublime conclusion, Mr. Brocklehurst adjusted the top button of his surtout, muttered something to his family, who rose, bowed to Miss Temple, and then all the great people sailed in state from the room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)