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blue·coat

 (blo͞o′kōt′)
n.
A person who wears a blue uniform, especially a police officer.
blue′coat′ed adj.
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bluecoat

(ˈbluːˌkəʊt)
n
1. a person who wears a blue coat, such as a sailor or policeman
2. a style of dress formerly used as a uniform in some British private schools, featuring a long dark blue (or sometimes black) coat
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blue•coat

(ˈbluˌkoʊt)

n.
1. a police officer.
2. a soldier in the U.S. Army in earlier times.
[1585–95]
blue′coat`ed, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bluecoat - a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor)
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
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bluecoat

noun
A member of a law-enforcement agency:
finest, officer, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, police, policeman, police officer, policewoman.
Informal: cop, law.
Slang: bull, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase).
Chiefly British: bobby, constable, peeler.
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As soon as I had got the bundle, and the maid was out of sight, I goes on towards the alehouse, where the porter's wife was, so that if I had met her, I had then only been going to give her the bundle, and to call her to her business, as if I was going away, and could stay no longer; but as I did not meet her, I walked away, and turning into Charterhouse Lane, then crossed into Batholomew Close, so into Little Britain, and through the Bluecoat Hospital, into Newgate Street.
To prevent my being known, I pulled off my blue apron, and wrapped the bundle in it, which before was made up in a piece of painted calico, and very remarkable; I also wrapped up my straw hat in it, and so put the bundle upon my head; and it was very well that I did thus, for coming through the Bluecoat Hospital, who should I meet but the wench that had given me the bundle to hold.
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