Prince Albert-coated

English

Etymology

From Prince Albert coat +‎ -ed.

Adjective

Prince Albert-coated (not comparable)

1. Wearing a Prince Albert coat.
   • 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^[1], volume XXXII, number 297, Wheeling, West Va., section “Pen Pictures of West Virginians”:

     Dovener is slight, brown-mustached and Prince Albert-coated, and goes at a matter like a terrier at a rat.

   • 1891 September 17, “Current Observations”, in The Anaconda Standard, volume III, number 13, Anaconda, Mont., page 2:

     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.

   • 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:

     Silk-hatted and Prince Albert-coated, ‘Dr.’ Starkee walks majestically ahead, swinging a gold headed cane.

   • 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:

     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.