tail coat
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tail coat
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n
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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tail′ coat`
or tail′coat`,
n.
a man's formal fitted coat, with a pair of tapering skirts behind.
Also called tails. [1840–50]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear - attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening morning coat, swallowtail, swallow-tailed coat - a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
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