A soldier wearing a brigander.

A person whose uniform includes or is distinguished by a white coat. An English soldier; (in later use) spec. a royalist soldier serving under the…

In extended use. A person who wears such a cap; esp. a Scottish soldier. Also more generally: a Scotsman. Frequently depreciative. Cf. blue bonnet, n.…

A person who wears a green coat, esp. a member of a military force distinguished by wearing green coats.

A person whose uniform includes or is distinguished by a red coat. An English soldier; (later) a soldier of the British army. Now historical.

In extended use. A person who wears a blue bonnet; esp. a Scottish soldier or border raider. Also more generally: a Scotsman. Now historical.

A member of a military or police force whose uniform includes, or consists of, a grey coat; spec. (U.S.) a soldier of the Confederate army in the…

A guard or soldier dressed in black, or dark or forbidding in features or character. Also figurative. Cf. sense A. 2. Obsolete.

a person who wears a red jacket; esp. a soldier; = redcoat, n. 1a.

(a) the cloth flap attached to a busby, the colour of which (in the British army) indicates the regiment to which a soldier belongs (see sense 2)…

= redcoat, n. 1a.

occasionally Persons clothed in scarlet; men in the hunting field (cf. pink, n.5 6b) or on the golf links; also soldiers in red uniform.

Used for a soldier clothed in khaki.