box coat

1. 1.

   a short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders

   Broadercoat

Questions about box coat

What does box coat mean?

box coat means "a short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders".

Is box coat a common word?

box coat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.