overclothes

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overclothes - clothing for use outdoors

outerwear

article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

robe, gown - outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions

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1182) profound change is illusory: the werewolf's skin overclothes both a perduring human body and the soul it encloses (108-9).

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Primrose stood outside the Curtis building for about twenty minutes sans overcoat, hat and gloves, as the rest of us shivered under our well-padded winter overclothes. Then Primrose opened his viola case and blithely played Paganini's 24th Caprice--flawlessly as always.