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frock coat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
   • A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.] 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74:
   • The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat. 2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 20:
   • In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler. A rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat. 1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling):

Forms

Deriveds

frock-coated

Hyponyms

Prince Albert coat

Translations (10)

pdt Scheeskjerock (coat with long skirts) · fr redingote (coat with long skirts) · pl surdut (coat with long skirts) · ca levita (coat with long skirts) · de Gehrock (coat with long skirts) · bg редингот (coat with long skirts) · mr फ्रॉक कोट (coat with long skirts) · it redingote (coat with long skirts) · es levita (coat with long skirts) · pdt Zatuarock (coat with long skirts)