The word "raincoat" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a type of outerwear designed to protect against rain. Example sentence: I always bring my raincoat with me when I go for a walk in the rain.
The Tate Modern show also features Muñoz's Raincoat Drawings, a series of drawings in chalk or ink on blackened gabardine raincoat fabric, depicting sparsely furnished rooms in which doorways lead on to further empty spaces.
Some years ago, a friend bought a Burberry raincoat but his wife dissuaded him from wearing it.
ONE spring morning in 1933, Max Ophuls, a celebrated film and stage director, arrived at his theatre in Berlin to find an underfed young man in a raincoat waiting impatiently for him in his office.
Even more important, patch technology allows drugs to be administered in a controlled fashion over time in a way that is more effective than swallowing time-release capsules.Designed to prevent water loss, the skin works equally in reverse as a raincoat, doing a surprisingly effective job of stopping most foreign substances from entering the bloodstream.
His books have titles like "The Empty Raincoat" and "The Elephant and the Flea", and he talks of phenomena such as "the shamrock organisation" (companies with three leaves of employment: full-time workers; subcontractors/outsourcers; and part-time specialists) and "the portfolio worker" (people who have a number of "jobs, clients and types of work" simultaneously).
Shoppers are going for fewer, classic items one Burberry raincoat, rather than three designer dresses, or a single Kelly bag by Hermès, a French luxury-goods group, instead of four bags from various lesser designers.
A few minutes later, the two men emerged from the Kremlin Mr Putin in a long black coat, his protégé in a short black raincoat.
The word mackintosh has become a general term for any raincoat.
Mackintosh, waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766 1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name.
Yet this is beginning to look less and less like a joke, and increasingly as if Kanye is going to have to invest in several heavy-duty umbrellas and a raincoat.
The 21-year-old Hume drowned wearing a light raincoat and uniform jacket, with a knife with a carved pearl handle and an empty purse in his pockets, the official records show.
