tail coat
Britishnoun
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Also called: tails. a man's black coat having a horizontal cut over the hips and a tapering tail with a vertical slit up to the waist: worn as part of full evening dress
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Also called: swallow-tailed coat. another name for morning coat
Example Sentences
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The fiddler, Waddell recalled in one essay, “usually wore a stovepipe hat, a stock of the old style, instead of a cravat, and a spike tail coat with brass buttons.”
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019
The riding jacket appeared not just as the “hunting pink” tail coat that ended the show, but also in bright yellow or in tweed with a corset underneath and tight knickers or lace-up-the-back skirts.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2010
Who was the last man to wear a swallow tail coat* in the Senate?—
From Time Magazine Archive
Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore a tail coat made of a beautiful plum-colored velvet.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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