Mr. Smiley evidently represents a valorous knight-else why that dish-cover shield, that saucepan helmet, that long surcoat of nightshirt in the place of mail?
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
Under his black fur-trimmed surcoat he wears a doublet of gold brocade.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
The black of the surcoat alone has lost a little of its first lustre; all the rest is as though it had left the easel but the other day.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue