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Tail coat

noun

Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men. Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails.

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"Tail coat" Quotes from Famous Books

... and which consisted of a trap-door, the width of a board in the flooring and the length of a man's fore-arm and no longer; a trap-door that falls back like the lid of a box; a trap-door through which I can see a hand come and dexterously fumble at the pocket of a swallow-tail coat. ...

— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

... although unfortunately there are a great number of fools about. One must apply oneself to something or other—God knows what. Everything is really very jolly—except getting up in the morning and wearing a tail coat.") ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

Words linked to "Tail coat" : swallowtail, morning coat, evening dress, swallow-tailed coat, eveningwear, formalwear, evening clothes