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tailcoated

tailcoated adjective: dressed in a tailcoat.

Adjective

tailcoated (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in a tailcoat.
    • Accompanying the article was a drawing: a chambermaid gripped the long wooden handle of a warming pan that projected rudely from between a tailcoated gentleman’s legs.2008 June 1, Nicholson Baker, “Sex and the City (Circa 1840)”, in The New York Times

Origin of tailcoated

From tailcoat + -ed.

Questions about tailcoated

What does tailcoated mean?
Tailcoated means dressed in a tailcoat.
What part of speech is tailcoated?
Tailcoated is an adjective.

Words near tailcoated in the dictionary

  1. tailbutter
  2. tailbuttered
  3. tailbuttering
  4. tailbutters
  5. tailcoat
  6. tailcoated
  7. tailcoats
  8. tailcone
  9. tailcones
  10. tailcord
  11. tailcords

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