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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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