frockcoats

Monocles came out; the old vanguard, the owl-faced men in frockcoats and gold-buttoned waistcoats, exchanged their Tartarean frowns for expressions of stifled awe.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Monocles came out; the old vanguard, the owl-faced men in frockcoats and gold-buttoned waistcoats, exchanged their Tartarean frowns for expressions of stifled awe.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Monocles came out; the old vanguard, the owl-faced men in frockcoats and gold-buttoned waistcoats, exchanged their Tartarean frowns for expressions of stifled awe.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

I am surrounded by a vast number of dear neighbours, from highly respectable and highly respected country gentlemen, attired in ample frockcoats and still more ample waistcoats, down to regular loafers, wearing jackets with long sleeves and a so-called shooting-bag on their back.

The Jew and other stories 2006

These men, of whom I thought there were about fifty or sixty, were all handsomely, though plainly, dressed in the military frockcoats of Europe; they stood in mass and so as to present a hollow semicircular front towards the upper end of the hall at which the Pasha sat; they opened a narrow lane for us when we entered, and as soon as we had passed they again closed up their ranks.

Eothen 2003

In the church there was all Moscow, all the friends and relations; and during the ceremony of plighting troth, in the brilliantly lighted church, there was an incessant flow of discreetly subdued talk in the circle of gaily dressed women and girls, and men in white ties, frockcoats, and uniforms.

Anna Karenina 2003

They wore gloomy top hats, and had blackbands around the left sleeves of their gray frockcoats.

Galaxy Jane Goulart, Ron, 1933- 1986

His immediate neighbours, on the contrary, exhibited no serenity whatever, and I found Canning and Palmerston shivering with apprehension in their frockcoats.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various

Their top-hats and frockcoats were taken away, for fear the jury might take them for undertakers, and not scoundrels.

The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay 1924

Here were carriages, many and elegant, filled with pretty women, and the railings were lined with frockcoats and top hats.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900