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tail coat

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tail coat
Noun
a man's black coat which stops at the hips at the front and has a long back split into two below the waist
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Noun1.tail coattail 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
tail coat n → habit m
tail coat n → marsina


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Hints of robustness survived in him, more than a hint of primitive good looks, and Margaret, noting the spine that might have been straight, and the chest that might have broadened, wondered whether it paid to give up the glory of the animal for a tail coat and a couple of ideas.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
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