单词 | frock-coat |
释义 | ˈfrock-ˈcoat A double-breasted coat with skirts extending almost to the knees, which are not cut away but of the same length in front as behind.
1823Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1824) 60 A regularly built green frock coat, not forgetting the velvet collar. 1835Willis Pencillings II. xliv. 46 He sat on a divan, cross-legged, in a military frock-coat. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 192/1 He usually wore a brown frock-coat, without a wrinkle. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar ii. xvi, There was John Proudfoot, the blacksmith, uncommonly awkward in a frock coat. Hence frock-ˈcoated ppl. a., wearing a frock-coat.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 205 The people..could hardly recognise the frock-coated, fancy-vested, military-trousered swell as Lord Scamperdale. |

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