Wishing-coat.
Wille Wynkin’s wishing-coat. An Irish locution.
“I wish I had here Willie Wynkin’s wishing-coat.”—Howard Pyle: Robin Hood, p. 200.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.