tailcoat

IPA: tˈeɪɫkoʊt

tail coat

IPA: tˈeɪɫkˈoʊt

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