Definition of Morning coat

1. Noun. A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Morning Coat

morned
mornes
morniflumate
mornin'
morning
morning(a)
morning, noon and night
morning-afters
morning-glory family
morning-kitchen
morning-land
morning after
morning afters
morning coat (current term)
morning diarrhoea
morning draught
morning draughts
morning dress
morning gift
morning glories
morning glory
morning glory seeds
morning gun
morning impaired
morning kitchen
morning people

Literary usage of Morning coat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Fashion then went to the opposite extreme of tight swallow-tails ; the latter were succeeded by the morning-coat pattern, now generally giving way to the ..."

2. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"Didn't he generally wear a light morning- coat?" "What! ... This light morning-coat came most inopportunely; it spoilt the whole man for me, ..."

3. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Material for the future ; still it will be remembered, in history on account of the president's morning-coat. The ambassadors who were present are said to ..."

4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"Didn't he generally wear a light morning- coat?" " What! ... This light morning-coat came most inopportunely; it spoilt the whole man for me, ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"As an ambassador Mr. Bryce may have improved in the manner of his dress; perhaps his morning coat is worn with more distinction, and his trousers are no ..."

6. The Wandering Jew (and Jewess)by R. D. Manning by R. D. Manning (2003)
"... against the back of the chair, and his wasted hands, coming from beneath the large sleeves of his brown morning coat, rest on the arms of the chair. ..."

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