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plural bluecoats
(British, often attributive) A pupil attending any of certain prestigious British schools having a traditional dress code. examples
(US history) A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War quotations
The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry.
2009 January 18, Ralph Blumenthal, “Re-enactor Is Indicted in Shooting of a Yankee”, in New York Times
(dated) A policeman quotations examples
"The offices are up those steps," said the bluecoat.
1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie