tailcoat
IPA: tˈeɪɫkoʊt
noun
- A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
- Any coat with similar tails.
tail coat
IPA: tˈeɪɫkˈoʊt
noun
- formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
Examples of "tailcoat" in Sentences
Examples of "tail-coat" in Sentences
- I changed my tail-coat for my jacket, but I did not take off the necktie.
- Before dinner-time I pomaded myself once more, and once more put on my tail-coat and necktie.
- Something unusual proclaimed itself in my tail-coat pocket, and I felt and discovered a glass ball.
- AzuraTheBlueDevil didn't think so: "I turned up for the school run in a tail-coat and knee-highbuckle-up pirate boots the otherday."
- In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original.
- A few moments later the enormous door creaked open, and Charlotte found herself staring at a man in a tail-coat, with stark white skin and no face at all.
- Old Dobbin, his father, who now respected him for the first time, gave him two guineas publicly; most of which he spent in a general tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail-coat after the holidays.
- He does not assume the tail-coat and the manners of manhood too early: he holds his tongue, and listens to his elders: his mind blushes as well as his cheeks: he does not know how to make bows and pay compliments like the young Frenchman: nor to contradict his seniors as I am informed