frock coat
See also: frock-coat and frockcoat
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editfrock coat (plural frock coats)
- A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
- From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.
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editcoat with long skirts
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edit- “frock coat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.