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Examples
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Scollay, dressed in a morning-coat and a ruffled shirt and striped trousers, shot me a hard look, and don't think I didn't see it.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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I think she thought that Joan would look at her through a lorgnette, and that Stenning would wear a morning-coat and talk about the League.
Movie Night 2010
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And Days, dressed in his morning-coat finery, will once again appear before the Supreme Court to argue the meaning of yet another aspect of child-pornography law.
Uneasy Days In Court 2008
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Lord Petre sat up wearily, reluctantly taking the velvet morning-coat that Jenkins held out to him, and sliding his feet into the slippers that had been placed beside the bed.
The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007
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Verona; he was crammed into the morning-coat he wore to teas thrice
Babbit 2004
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The man was attired in a loose-fitting, common, black-cloth morning-coat.
Barchester Towers 2004
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Scollay, dressed in a morning-coat and a ruffled shirt and striped trousers, shot me a hard look, and don't think I didn't see it.
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This light morning-coat came most inopportunely; it spoilt the whole man for me such as I had fancied him.
Hunger 2003
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He would come in full of fresh little anxieties, full of the cut of a morning-coat, of the shape of a felt hat, of the proper size for his visiting-cards.
Pierre And Jean 2003
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One of them, young and pink-faced, with a shaven head, was wearing a morning-coat and striped trousers and, from time to time, wiped the lenses of his gold-rimmed spectacles.
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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