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frockcoat

frockcoat 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 frockcoat

pluralfrockcoats

Words formed from frockcoat

Questions about frockcoat

What is frockcoat the alternative form of?
Frockcoat is the alternative form of frock coat.

Words near frockcoat in the dictionary

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

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