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A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution.
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A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.
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A fox.
Examples of redcoats in a Sentence
The redcoats are coming, they said to each other.
The redcoats were cut down and their bodies fell into the dismal swamp on either side of the narrow gangplank.
The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo Boy and wolf, befriended, escape the murderous English redcoats after the Jacobite Rebellion.
On Sunday, Diane Leek, Lord Mayor of Sheffield, toured the event and inspected an honor guard of Napoleonic redcoats.
The Mayor in his robes mounted on a Horse richly caparisoned, led by two footmen called redcoats with white wands.
A Jacobite trooper supposedly leaped 18 ft across the gorge to escape the redcoats.