{{Short description|Type of tight-fitting uniform coat or jacket with short tails}} [[File:BlackWatch Jacket (Borodino Battlefield Museum).jpg|thumb|right|A British Army coatee from about 1815.]] A '''coatee''' is a type of tight-fitting uniform coat or jacket, which is waist length at the front and has short tails behind. The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded by the tunic in the mid nineteenth century.<ref>Kannik, Preben (1968), ''Military Uniforms of the World in Colour'', Blandford Press Ltd, {{ISBN|0-71370482-9}} (p. 270)</ref>
A coatee, worn with a waistcoat or vest, remains part of formal Highland dress.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scottishwedding.visitscotland.com/doctor/GroomsWear |title=Month Four: Deciding Groomswear |website=scottishwedding.visitscotland.com |publisher=VisitScotland |access-date=1 March 2014}}</ref>
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