black-coated

adjective

British (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial

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Historical Examples of black-coated

You are either the assassin or the accomplice, you accursed, black-coated hypocrite!'
A Rainy June and Other Stories
Ouida
The bishop one day met a number of these black-coated Nimrods.
Liverpool a few years since
James Aspinall
A black-coated individual, Bible in hand, was addressing the acrobats.
Acrobats and Mountebanks
Hugues Le Roux
Nell says she dont want no black-coated parson in this 49 camp.
The Heart of Canyon Pass
Thomas K. Holmes
Even like bees, black-coated and buzzing, the eager ones swarmed from the cars and rehived in the great stand.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser