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fool's coat
1. The motley coat of a fool or buffoon.
1589Nashe Martins Months minde To Rdr. Wks. (Grosart) I. 166 When they shall put off their fooles coat. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. i, Of as many colours, as ere you saw any fooles coat in your life.
transf. and fig.1709H. Chandler Effort agst. Bigotry 17 Non-Conformists, Church-men..or whatever Fool's Coat of Distinction their uncharitable envious Neighbours put upon them. 1718J. Warder True Amazons (ed. 2) 54 Their [the Wasps'] Fools Coat, and hoarse Voice, doth soon discover them. 1735Pope Donne Sat. iv. 221 Our Court..helps it [the stage] both to fools-coats and to fools.
2. (See quot.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, A Fool's-Coat, a Tulip so called, striped with Red and Yellow.
3. A name for the goldfinch.
a1682Sir T. Browne Birds Norfolk Wks. 1852 III. 322.
4. A bivalve mollusc, Isocardia cor, better known as heart-shell (Cent. Dict.). |