dress coat

noun

1. tailcoat.

dress coat

noun

1. a man's formal tailcoat with a cutaway skirt

Other Word Forms

• dress-coated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dress coat¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

I also landed on an outfit: a black dress coat, green turtleneck sweater dress, black leggings and black heeled boots.

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For attending Shabbos dinners and banquets hosted by the burial society, I had acquired a secondhand dress coat.

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He shows me one of his first designs, a black dress coat with a woven gold dragon.

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Dressed in a white dress coat and removing a face mask before testifying, Jane remained on the witness stand for over four hours for the government.

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Throughout all of this, she insisted on wearing trousers – she was even married in trousers and a dress coat.

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