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joseph

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈd͡ʒəʊsəf//
  • United States//ˈd͡ʒoʊsəf//

A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.

noun

  1. 1

    A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.

Etymology

Probably in allusion to Joseph's coat of many colours in Genesis 37:3.

Forms

plural
josephs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).