dress coat
noun
dress-coated
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a word derived from
dress coat.
Example Sentences
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The valeting in that house was unexceptionable, and the service at table was of a dress-coated decorum worthy of finer dinners than were ever eaten there.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
They drove away from the door in a couple of four-wheelers, two happy, smiling girls on either back seat, faced by a hungry, dress-coated man.
From The Daughters of a Genius by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
We can fancy one of these parties, we think, as well as if we were duly dress-coated and pumped, and had just been announced at the drawing-room door.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens
