frock-coat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.87 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Most of the officers were dressed in uniform which is neat and serviceable—viz., a bluish-grey frock-coat of a colour similar to Austrian yagers."
- "They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands."
- "First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship."
- "A lot of young men in long frock-coats glued to the door-posts, so limp, poor things, and all the women drinking tea by themselves and longing for the young men."
- "From behind that structure came out an impression of pale plumpness in a frock-coat."
- "So there, my dear Bertie, was I, within a few hours of my entrance into this town, with my top-hat down to my ears, my highly professional frock-coat, and my kid gloves, fighting some low bruiser on a pedestal in one of the most public places, in the heart of a yelling and hostile mob!"