| 单词 | jimswinger coat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjimswinger coat In full, jimswinger coat. A swallow-tailed coat, esp. a frock coat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of coatee1775 swallowtail1835 claw-hammer coat1842 swallowtail coat1848 claw hammer1855 swinger1863 steel pen1873 jimswinger1895 Newmarket overcoat1960 1895 Dial. Notes 1 389 Jim-swinger, long-tailed coat, especially a ‘Prince Albert’. 1898 P. L. Dunbar Folks from Dixie 52 He walked to church, flanked on one side by Aunt Caroline..and on the other by her husband stately in the magnificence of an antiquated ‘Jim-swinger’. 1912 H. Crumpton & W. B. Crumpton Adv. Two Alabama Boys 78 I was a tall, slim, awkward lad, about eighteen years old, thin as a match, pale as a ghost and had on a long Jim Swinger. 1933 C. Miller Lamb in Bosom v. 47 If you were a lawyer,..you wore a jimswinger coat. 1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 75 Cut-away and Jim swinger, formal clothes. Suwannee backwoods. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) i. 9 She wore indoors and out a strictly tailored swallow-tail coat, the kind American Negroes call a ‘Jimswinger’. 1972 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 30 Dec. 4/1 Jim-swinger coat..and brogans have almost vanished. < as lemmas |
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