frock coat

noun

1. a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.

frock coat

noun

1. a man's single- or double-breasted skirted coat, as worn in the 19th century

Word History and Origins

Origin of frock coat¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

Even the word “oratory,” from our postmillennial point of view, seems outdated, the rhetorical equivalent of knee breeches and frock coats.

From Washington Post

It was Barack Obama’s first inaugural, and I’d rented a frock coat and stovepipe hat from a costume shop and sprung for my own fake beard and the spirit gum with which to glue it on.

From Washington Post

For this service he arrayed himself in an old-fashioned frock coat with long skirts.

From The Daily Beast

In the photo, Sherman stands, dressed in an elaborate embroidered velvet frock coat and vest from the late eighteenth century.

From The Daily Beast

At eighteen years of age I had my first frock coat and tall hat.

From Project Gutenberg

He is dressed in a long, black frock-coat reaching nearly to his heels.

From Project Gutenberg

And then he could have moved up to town, and got a frock-coat, and paid another call upon Mrs. "Parmy" Patton.

From Project Gutenberg

He wore a tall silk hat, with an ancient straight brim, and a black frock coat and a terribly solemn expression.

From Project Gutenberg

How I was dolled up in my little, tight-fitting frock coat, hat, and cane!

From Project Gutenberg