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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 Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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 Howells, William Dean

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 Dickens, Charles