Prince Albert-coated en · ADJ
Etymology
From Prince Albert coat + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing a Prince Albert coat.
Dovener is slight, brown-mustached and Prince Albert-coated, and goes at a matter like a terrier at a rat.
1884 August 5, “A “Foreigner’s” Views: Colonel Mussey’s Impressions: Of His Travels Through West Virginia—The Democratic State Ticket—The “Register’s” Worriment—Pen Pictures of Prominent West Virginians—Republican Prospects”, in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, volume XXXII, number 297, Wheeling, West Va., section “Pen Pictures of West Virginians”:The modern masculine costume is the horror alike of sculptors and spectators. Its utter unfitness for use in art is painfully conspicuous in Prince Albert-coated Cox as he stands in Astor place, with his right arm raised in the heroic effort to hail a fourth avenue horse car.
1891 September 17, “Current Observations”, in The Anaconda Standard, volume III, number 13, Anaconda, Mont., page 2:He [Oscar Hammerstein II] has said he never knew his paternal grandfather [Oscar Hammerstein I] well. The top-hatted, Prince Albert-coated, stripped-trousered figure with the goatee and the big cigar was too busy to spend much time with his grandson.
1982 May 15, Susan Molloy, “Oklahoma!—musical that spells success: A simple theme that made millions”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,046, page 14:Silk-hatted and Prince Albert-coated, ‘Dr.’ Starkee walks majestically ahead, swinging a gold headed cane.
1950s–1962, William O. Wallace, “Princess in medicine show (The Stroller)”, in The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Ind., published 8 May 1987, section “Boys do work”, page 2: