morning coat
English
Noun
morning coat (plural morning coats)
- (often hyphenated) A man's formal coat worn as the principal item in morning dress.
- 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)