Frock-coat definition

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.

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