A coat with long tails at the back, worn by men on very formal occasions.
燕尾服
Example sentencesExamples
If I'm in the studio or having a creative meeting, I'm less inclined to wear a dress coat.
He then dabbed his forehead with a cloth and took off his dress coat, handing it to another pastor.
The current enlisted blue dress coat with slash cuff appeared in 1892, gaining pockets by 1949.
I stood and smiled to the group and then accepted the black dress coat that Derek draped over my shoulders.
Rio walked across the room constantly, his dress coat almost sliding on the floor.
He asked if everyone could hear him, and took a second to check the small microphone in his lapel; a thin black wire trailed down the back of his dress coat and off to the side of the platform.
Matt did own a dress coat, Mary hastens to add, but he hadn't gotten together the money to buy the slacks.
He wore a velvet, royal blue dress coat, hemmed with gold thread and gold cuffs.
He removed the dress coat and walked to a window.
Definition of dress coat in US English:
dress coat
nounˈdres ˌkōt
another term for tailcoat
Example sentencesExamples
He removed the dress coat and walked to a window.
I stood and smiled to the group and then accepted the black dress coat that Derek draped over my shoulders.
He then dabbed his forehead with a cloth and took off his dress coat, handing it to another pastor.
Rio walked across the room constantly, his dress coat almost sliding on the floor.
The current enlisted blue dress coat with slash cuff appeared in 1892, gaining pockets by 1949.
He wore a velvet, royal blue dress coat, hemmed with gold thread and gold cuffs.
If I'm in the studio or having a creative meeting, I'm less inclined to wear a dress coat.
He asked if everyone could hear him, and took a second to check the small microphone in his lapel; a thin black wire trailed down the back of his dress coat and off to the side of the platform.
Matt did own a dress coat, Mary hastens to add, but he hadn't gotten together the money to buy the slacks.