Meanings
adjectivefrock-coated (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of frockcoated.
Frock-coated plutocrats started from it when they took their gout to Vichy, or Carlsbad.
1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356, about Blackfriars station, London
Origin
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