swallow-tailed coat

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   a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back

   Synonymsswallowtailmorning coat

   Broaderjacket

   Part ofdress suitmorning dress

Questions about swallow-tailed coat

What does swallow-tailed coat mean?

swallow-tailed coat means "a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back".

What is another word for swallow-tailed coat?

Close synonyms include swallowtail, morning coat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swallow-tailed coat a common word?

swallow-tailed 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.