tail coat

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tail coat

1. (Clothing & Fashion) Also called tails a man's black coat having a horizontal cut over the hips and a tapering tail with a vertical slit up to the waist: worn as part of full evening dress

2. (Clothing & Fashion) Also called swallow-tailed coat another name for morning coat

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Noun

tail coat - formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men

dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tails, white tie and tails, white tie

evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear - attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening

morning coat, swallow-tailed coat, swallowtail - a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

Translations

tail coat n → frac m inv, marsina

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