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lab coat






lab coat   
noun

Definition of lab coat

: a loose-fitting usually white coat with deep pockets that is worn in a laboratory or medical facility



Recent Examples on the Web


//Four receptionists sit behind the front desk, each wearing perfect teeth and an embroidered lab coat, pointedly ignoring the drumming.
Summer Block, Longreads, "Better Late," 23 Aug. 2019

//One recent afternoon, Mansuy donned a fresh lab coat and blue sanitary booties and gently cracked the door of a darkened room at her lab at UZH.
Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, "Parents’ emotional trauma may change their children’s biology. Studies in mice show how," 18 July 2019

//Wearing purple latex gloves, safety glasses, and a white lab coat, 17-year-old Angel Muthemba dispensed a pipette filled with DNA into the ridge of a measuring device.
Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, "Science in their DNA: Internship at Harvard affiliate inspires high school students," 21 Aug. 2019

//The Islamic State claims responsibility after gunmen wearing white lab coats storm a military hospital in Kabul, killing 50 people.
Washington Post, "A look at deadliest attacks in Afghanistan in recent years," 18 Aug. 2019

//Being ordered around or, worse, looked at in a certain tone of voice by their executive-class family members or men in white lab coats, well and surely did.
Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Black Women Can’t Bridge the Gender Gap Alone: raceAhead," 22 Aug. 2019

//Last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two conservators in lab coats struggled with a glove.
Brooke Bobb, Vogue, "Tulle Bombs and Tiny Gloves: How Two Conservators Dressed a Mannequin in Tomo Koizumi for “Camp: Notes on Fashion”," 8 May 2019

//On the last day of May, Fost steps off the street and onto the wooden floor boards at Montage, a 26-year-old restaurant known for its servers in lab coats, its late (all-ages) hours and the fanciful aluminum foil animals fashioned for leftovers.
Michael Russell, oregonlive.com, "How restaurant inspectors determine which Portland kitchens pass – and fail – their inspections," 11 July 2019

//Photos posted on The Journal News and social media show police blocking the entrance to the hospital and workers in lab coats and scrubs gathered outside it.
Fox News, "The Latest: Husband killed wife, himself over her illness," 8 Aug. 2018


First Known Use of lab coat

1895, in the meaning defined above



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