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black-coated
adjective
- (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
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The black-coated myrmidons of Coryon scaled the fatal terrace only to be shot down the moment that they came in sight.
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Do you recall the warnings of our black-coated friend of last evening—warnings against les serpents, as he called them?
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Mrs. Bungay's own footboy was lost amidst those large and black-coated attendants.
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Mr. Liggins I remember as a vision of my childhood—a tall, black-coated, genteel young clergyman-in-embryo.
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At the Squire's voice the black-coated man withdrew a little distance to the roadway, where he stood watching.
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