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Order sort of grey coat (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

category

'order' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'sort of grey coat' is the wordplay.
'sort of' indicates anagramming the letters.
'grey'+'coat'='greycoat'
'greycoat' anagrammed gives 'CATEGORY'.

(Other definitions for category that I've seen before include "Genre" , "Group of classified items" , "Coy Greta found among this class of things" , "Class or order" , "Type" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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