Definition of "frock coat" [frock coat]

• A man's dress coat or suit coat with knee-length skirts. (noun)

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• "Short, broad, and corpulent, Ismail wore the hybrid costume of a progressive Turk, a stambouli frock coat topped with a fez."
• "In the scrum on the quayside, the Turkish fez mingled with the spiked Prussian helmet, the frock coat with the jellaba, the veil with the parasol."
• "The lady was accompanied at dinner by a fashionable-looking gentleman in a frock coat and sideburns, and other impressive gentlemen came up to her during the meal and bent over the hand which she extended in greeting in a most romantic manner."