He has been sent for to make a coat for Prince Frederick, and when he came, was ordered to go and take measure of him in the room where the King was.

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He borrowed a 16 mm camera, cut up his mother's old fur coat to make a bear model, and made a film about himself and his dog being menaced by a bear.

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The single or double vents that make it comfortable to wear a coat on horseback are testament to the sporting antecedents of the suit.

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To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.

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If you have a long leather coat, wear it, and make sure it flaps in the wind.

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Gamely Mitchell put on the coat, three sizes too small, and tried to make a joke of it.

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Budding photographers should visit in the late afternoon to make the most of the red sunsets that coat the downtown rooftops in a rosy glow.

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She considered taking off her coat but was afraid to move that drastically, afraid that its breadth might make a sail in the wind and pull her down.

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