mink coat

Definition

A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people.

Etymology

Compound of mink + coat.

Example Sentences

• "We think we will in no time parlay our abundant love into abundant riches of the mink coat type, so it comes as a major surprise that we could be so poor... for so long."
• "Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat. His wife, Nixon boasted, did not own a mink coat, but rather she owned 'a respectable Republican cloth coat...'"