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Definition of Tailcoats
1. tailcoat [n] - See also: tailcoat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailcoats
Literary usage of Tailcoats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Painter's Camp by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882)
"He had been dancing at an open-air ball, and some bourgeois in tailcoats had
resented the intrusion of Jacob and one or two other blouses. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Happy I say, and happier far than tailcoats or Byron could make them ; for from
those worn weak hearts divine lessons of long suffering may be learned, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... on the same lines as those that had fought with Jervis. Even uniform had not
settled Into a routine. In one ship might be seen tailcoats, epaulettes, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"He had been dancing at an open- air ball, and some bourgeois in tailcoats had
resented the intrusion of Jacob and one or two other blouses. ..."
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