morning coat

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

morning coat (plural morning coats)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
A man wearing a morning coat.
  1. (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]