morning coat

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

Origin of morning coat

1
First recorded in 1930–35

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How to use morning coat in a sentence

  • He wore a shabby morning-coat tightly buttoned, and his hands in bracelets of steel were behind his back.

  • A fattish, middle-aged man in brand new shepherd's plaid trousers and a not quite so new braided morning-coat.

    Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
  • His well-tailored morning-coat displayed to admiration a splendid torso.

    Linda Lee, Incorporated | Louis Joseph Vance
  • The man was attired in a loose-fitting, common, black-cloth morning-coat.

    Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
  • Seor Puchol entered, a dark little man who wore a morning-coat and had a hat with a flat brim edged with braid.

    Csar or Nothing | Po Baroja Baroja

British Dictionary definitions for morning coat

morning coat

noun
  1. a cutaway frock coat, part of morning dress: Also called: tail coat, swallow-tailed coat

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