• From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) and recorded by Bartleby:

  Definition: BENJAMIN
  A smart overcoat;

  so called from a tailor of the name, and rendered popular by its association with Joseph’s “coat of many colours.”

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