A man's dress coat or suit coat with knee-length skirts.
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A man's double-breasted dress coat with a full skirt reaching to the knees, worn chiefly in the 19th cent.
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A long double-breasted coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
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Alternative Forms
Alternative Form of frock-coat -
frockcoat
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
frock-coat
Plural:
frock-coats
Frock-coat Sentence Examples
Interesting that he has a blue frock coat and Shako.
Every visitor to Paris is familiar with the rather theatrical-looking policeman, in his short frock-coat or cape, smart kepi cocked on one side of his head, and with a sword by his side.
By night he was donning a frock coat and bow tie in the last of the great seaside vaudeville shows witnessed on the Island.
And Natasha felt that this costume, the very one she had regarded with surprise and amusement at Otradnoe, was just the right thing and not at all worse than a swallow-tail or frock coat.
The dashing frock coat also looks like distressed leather and features bronze buttons.