tail coat
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noun
a man's fitted coat, cut away over the hips and descending in a pair of tapering skirts behind, usually black and worn as part of full evening dress.
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Origin of tail coat
First recorded in 1840–50
Words nearby tail coat
tailband, tail between one's legs, with one's, tailboard, tailbone, tail bud, tail coat, tail cone, tail covert, tailed, tailed frog, tail end
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British Dictionary definitions for tail coat
tail coat
noun
Also called: tails a man's black coat having a horizontal cut over the hips and a tapering tail with a vertical slit up to the waist: worn as part of full evening dress
Also called: swallow-tailed coat another name for morning coat
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