frock coatn.
A double-breasted coat with skirts extending almost to the knees, which are not cut away but of the same length in front as behind.
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1823 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1824) 60 A regularly built green frock coat, not forgetting the velvet collar.
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xliv. 46 He sat on a divan, cross-legged, in a military frock-coat.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 257 He usually wore a brown frock coat without a wrinkle.
1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xvi There was John Proudfoot, the blacksmith, uncommonly awkward in a frock coat.
Derivatives
frock-ˈcoated adj. wearing a frock coat.
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blue-coateda1594
russet-coated1596
grey-coated1597
parti-coated1598
black-coated1600
red-coated1641
greatcoated1748
short-coated1813
frock-coated1850
tail-coated1850
buff-coated1856
overcoated1856
tunicked1876
raincoated1901
trench-coated1923
Crombie-coated1951
slickered1972
1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxviii, in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 371 The people..could hardly recognise the frock-coated, fancy-vested, military-trousered swell, as Lord Scamperdale.
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