frock coat

frock coat

See also: frockcoat

English

Noun

frock coat (plural frock coats)

1. A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

Hyponyms

• Prince Albert coat

Translations

A coat with long skirts

Bulgarian: редингот (bg) m (redingot)