Thread: What's the difference between a jacket and a coat?
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Old 02-04-2016, 02:09 PM  
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Originally Posted by mineistaken View Post
There absolutely is.
However:


Coat (clothing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

"There is no difference" and "sometimes informally (and only in American English, not even real English) use interchangeably" are different things.


that wiki entry is from the early 19th century.

a dandy prolly wrote that.
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