WordNet
n. a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back [syn: swallowtail, morning coat]
Usage examples of "swallow-tailed coat".
He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
One afternoon, when nearing my own home, I met him in one of his favourite disguises,a long blue swallow-tailed coat, striped cotton trousers, large turn-over collar, blacked face, and white hat, carrying a tambourine.
He wore his usual garments: purple trousers tight at the knee but baggy elsewhere, and a swallow-tailed coat cut of jermot hide, a scaly leather imported through Semling from some desert planet at the end of nowhere.
Actually the thought of him in elegant Regency knee-smalls and a swallow-tailed coat .
Actually the thought of him in elegant Regency knee-smalls and a swallow-tailed coat .
He was relieved to see that Miles did at least possess knee-smalls and a swallow-tailed coat, but his fingers itched to rearrange a necktie which he thought deplorable, and to brush into a more fashionable style his uncle's raven locks.
Hethersett himself came out of the house, very natty in knee-breeches and silk stockings, a waistcoat of watered silk, a swallow-tailed coat, and a snowy cravat arranged by his expert hands in the intricate style known as the Mathematical Tie.