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swallow-tailed coat

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swallow-tailed coat
n.
See tailcoat.
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Noun1.swallow-tailed coatswallow-tailed coat - a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back
morning coat, swallowtail
dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tailcoat, tails, white tie and tails, white tie - formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
jacket - a short coat
morning dress - formal attire for men during the daytime


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He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He seemed fully as tall as the Wizard, and was dressed in a red and white checked vest and a blue swallow-tailed coat, and had yellow knee breeches and purple silk stockings upon his slender legs.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
To speak plainly, the fellow had, in spite of his grinning, an audacious and sinister kind of face; and as he curvetted right into the village, the old stumpy appearance of his pumps excited no little suspicion; and many a burgher who beheld him that day would have given a trifle for a peep beneath the white cambric handkerchief which hung so obtrusively from the pocket of his swallow-tailed coat.
The Devil in the Belfry by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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