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/ˈʌlstə/ · noun
(clothing, men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front..
Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …
“That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.”
I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
“By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.
Use ulster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ulster means (clothing, men's attire) A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …
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