Greycoats
. Russian soldiers of the line, who wear grey coats.
“You might think of him thus calm and collected charging his rifle for one more shot at the advancing greycoats.”—Besant and Rice: By Celia’s Arbour, chap. xlv.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.