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At Vuitton, there were frock coats paired with sneakers: part 19th century, part 1967, and somehow utterly forward-looking.
—Nathan Heller, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
The father, in a black frock coat, cracked his whip at a mangy and irritated lion who eventually agreed to jump through a hoop.
—Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
The suit itself was a more casual alternative to the frock coat.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 18 June 2024
His plays, however, can turn stuffy and melodramatic in modern productions: living museum dioramas in which women in long skirts and men in frock coats howl about syphilis and scandal.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1818, in the meaning defined above
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“Frock coat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frock%20coat. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
frock coat
noun
: a man's long overcoat
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