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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
“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 frock coat1

First recorded in 1735–45
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Example Sentences

Even the word “oratory,” from our postmillennial point of view, seems outdated, the rhetorical equivalent of knee breeches and frock coats.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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