frock coat

See also: frock-coat, and frockcoat

English

Alternative forms

• frock-coat, frockcoat

Pronunciation

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Noun

frock coat (plural frock coats)

1. A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:

     From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat.

   • 1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling):

     In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler. A rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat.

Hyponyms

• Prince Albert coat

Derived terms

• frock-coated

Translations

coat with long skirts

• Bulgarian: редингот (bg) m (redingot)
• French: redingote (fr) f
• German: Gehrock (de) m
• Marathi: फ्रॉक कोट m (phrŏk koṭ)
• Polish: surdut (pl) m
• Spanish: levita (es)

References

• “frock coat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.