frock coat

1. 1.

   a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back; worn in the 19th century

   Broadercoat

   NarrowerPrince Albert

Questions about frock coat

What does frock coat mean?

frock coat means "a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back; worn in the 19th century".

Is frock coat a common word?

frock coat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.