morning coat
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]morning coat (plural morning coats)
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- (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
[edit]- cutaway (American English)