>What the /hoek/ is a duster?!

A long overcoat, not unlike a trenchcoat but generally even longer (ankle length), usually made of light-colored canvas or oilcloth and commonly equipped with leg straps and a high-split tail for horseback riding. Popularized in the late 18th century in the American West and also quite common in the Australian Outback, or so I'm told. I believe the name comes from the fact that they were intended, with their great length, to protect a rider's clothes from the dust that horseback riding in a desert kicks up.

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