MORNING COAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning coat mean? 

• MORNING COAT (noun)
  The noun MORNING COAT has 1 sense:

1. a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

  Familiarity information: MORNING COAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORNING COAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

morning coat; swallow-tailed coat; swallowtail

Hypernyms ("morning coat" is a kind of...):

jacket (a short coat)

Holonyms ("morning coat" is a part of...):

dress suit; full dress; tail coat; tailcoat; tails; white tie; white tie and tails (formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men)

morning dress (formal attire for men during the daytime)

 Context examples 

He was dressed like any other ordinary gentleman, in a loose grey morning coat and waistcoat, and white trousers; and had his watch in his fob, and his money in his pockets: which he rattled as if he were very proud of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)