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morning coat en · NOUN
Meanings
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(qualifier:often hyphenated) A man's formal coat worn as the principal item in morning dress, it also used for royal ascot and weddings.
Behind him a group of men in starched high collars and black morning-coats and striped trousers stood about in attitudes of stern pensiveness, frowning at their fingernails, or gazing fixedly out of the window.
1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
Forms
Synonyms
cutaway