Home › Words › P › patchcoatpatchcoatpatchcoat means patched coat.EtymologyFrom patch + coat.nounpatched coate.g.“White clowns and patchcoat harlekins lie upon cloth-of-silver, like dead geese on snow; their disguises are stained with wine which turns from black to red as the strength of the moonlight grows.” — 1978, Michael Moorcock, chapter 1, in Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).