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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

From inside the Oval Office, Kennedy’s aides watched the president, in his long dress coat, pace back and forth on the wet grass.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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