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Definition of Swallow-tailed coat
1. Noun. A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back.
Group relationships: Dress Suit, Full Dress, Tail Coat, Tailcoat, Tails, White Tie, White Tie And Tails, Morning Dress
Generic synonyms: Jacket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallow-tailed Coat
Literary usage of Swallow-tailed coat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... under bonnet), (ri) A swallow-tailed coat ; a dress-coat. [Colloq. ] (e) The
point« of a burgee. (/ ) A broad or barbed arrow-head. ..."
2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"... much more sure that I knew the real Webster, if I had seen him in any of the
above-mentioned dresses, than either in his swallow-tailed coat or frock. ..."
3. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"... if I had seen him in any of the above-mentioned dresses, than either in his
swallow-tailed coat or frock. Talking of a taste for painting and sculpture, ..."
4. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"... if I had seen him in any of the above-mentioned dresses, than either in his
swallow-tailed coat or frock. Talking of a taste for painting and sculpture, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"Among other items in this proposed costume, there was to bu " a cocked-hat looped
up with an American eagle," and " a swallow-tailed coat with stars and ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1860)
"He was a meek and subdued personage, this tall man in the swallow-tailed coat,
and the drab trousers; he was also a polite man and a pale. ..."
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