WordNet
n. formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men [syn: dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails]
Usage examples of "tail coat".
Out of the bresh s'antered a tall gent in a long frock tail coat and broad-brimmed hat.
We brought up outside two great double doors with a flunkey in a wig at either side, and a small fat man in a black tail coat bobbed in front of us, and darted forward muttering to twitch at my collar and smooth my lapel.
The tail coat worn over tailored trousers had been borrowed from ancient England.
Fortune was in consultation - her eyes dwelt with demure humour on Mephistopheles in a black tail coat - but he said he couldn't give a message, it was very urgent.
A small, perspiring man, smelling of spirits, with a white tie and swallow-tail coat, which he took off after the first figure, came up to her, hiccoughing, and caught her up, while another fat man, with a beard, and also wearing a dress-coat (they had come straight from a ball) caught Clara up, and for a long time they turned, danced, screamed, drank.
He wore an officer's red tail coat with the white facings of the 74th.