black-coated

adjective

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

Nearby words

black-bag job, black-bellied plover, black-billed cuckoo, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, black-coated, black-crowned night heron, black-eyed pea, black-eyed susan, black-figure, black-footed ferret

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Examples from the Web for black-coated

The air stirred the leaves of the old Walnuts outside: the black-coated, dapper figure had not yet passed from under them.
Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873|Various
He seemed like a breath of real life in the great New York depot, surrounded by streams of black-coated, pale-cheeked men.
The Tempting of Tavernake|E. Phillips Oppenheim
Never saw one of your black-coated flock about that there wasn't mischief brewing—never!
An Outcast|F. Colburn Adams
T was a lovely girl spoiled, when the black-coated gentry preached her into their notions.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle|Anonymous

Now come two black-coated cousins, the purple grackle and shoulder-strapped redwing of the blackbird family.
Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 4 [April 1902]|Various