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morning coat

noun

  1. a man's cutaway for wear as part of morning dress.


morning coat

noun

  1. a cutaway frock coat, part of morning dress Also calledtail coatswallow-tailed coat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of morning coat1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

Then here came the tailors for Mr. Cranston’s frock coat and morning coat and striped trousers and silk nightshirts with his initials sewed on.

Prince Andrew was dressed in a morning coat — no longer a working royal, damaged by scandal, but still present.

“As Shakespeare says of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was ‘a pattern to all princes living,’ ” said the king, who was wearing a black morning coat with tails, a black waistcoat and gray pinstriped trousers.

There were some minor royals and B-level English celebrities and gents in morning coats and top hats and ladies wearing fascinators, aplenty.

He stepped down in September and visited the shrine on Sunday, dressed in a formal morning coat.

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