morning coat

English

Noun

morning coat (plural morning coats)

A man wearing a morning coat.

1. (often hyphenated) A man's formal coat worn as the principal item in morning dress, it also used for royal ascot and weddings.
   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     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.

Synonyms

• cutaway (American English)