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frock-coat

frock-coat is the alternative form of frock coat.

Meaning of frock coat

Noun

frock coat (plural frock coats)

  1. A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions.
    • A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74

Forms of frock-coat

pluralfrock-coats

Questions about frock-coat

What is frock-coat the alternative form of?
Frock-coat is the alternative form of frock coat.

Words near frock-coat in the dictionary

  1. frock
  2. frock coat
  3. frock coats
  4. frock flick
  5. frock flicks
  6. frock-coat
  7. frock-coated
  8. frock-coats
  9. frockcoat
  10. frockcoated
  11. frockcoats

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