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dress coat

American  

noun

  1. tailcoat.


dress coat British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of dress coat

First recorded in 1760–70

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

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2022

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.

From Seattle Times Aug. 18, 2022

A post from January 2016 shows Chung in a bow-tied navy blue dress coat.

From The Guardian Mar. 16, 2018

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

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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