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Garment on French animal covering nothing (7)

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I believe the answer is:

surcoat

'garment' is the definition.
(surcoat is a kind of garment)

'french animal covering nothing' is the wordplay.
'french' becomes 'sur' (I've seen this in other clues).
'animal' becomes 'cat' (cats are animals).
'covering' is an insertion indicator.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'cat' placed around 'o' is 'coat'.
'sur'+'coat'='SURCOAT'

'on' is the link.

(Another definition for surcoat that I've seen is " garment".)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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