frock coat

• “He saw a gentleman descend, a gentleman clothed as for a wedding, in a frock coat and a white waistcoat, in shining hat and pearl gray gloves and a boutonnière of oleander.”

  Jerry Junior

• “That meant his best robes, for our durbar appearance at noon, with Flashy in full fig of frock coat and go-to-meeting roof, making my official bow to little Dalip enthroned in state; you'd not have recognised the lively imp of yesterday in the regal little figure all in silver, nodding his aigretted turban most condescendingly when I was presented by Lal Singh, who was second minister.”

  Flashman and the Mountain of Light

• “Short, broad, and corpulent, Ismail wore the hybrid costume of a progressive Turk, a stambouli frock coat topped with a fez.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

• “He wore a frock coat with satin reveres, a brilliant waistcoat, three alberts, a diamond tie-pin and any quantity of rings.”

  Killer Dolphin

• “Slumping onto the leather squabs he flung his frock coat into the corner and loosened his waistcoat and cravat.”

  Tutoring Lady Jane

• “In the scrum on the quayside, the Turkish fez mingled with the spiked Prussian helmet, the frock coat with the jellaba, the veil with the parasol.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

• “At M. Cuvier's only am I sufficiently at ease to go in a frock coat ...”

  Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence

• “The lady was accompanied at dinner by a fashionable-looking gentleman in a frock coat and sideburns, and other impressive gentlemen came up to her during the meal and bent over the hand which she extended in greeting in a most romantic manner.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caddie Woodlawn’s Family

• “He had hastily dressed, throwing a dusty frock coat over his nightshirt, but had neglected to address the issue of his bed-matted hair: The wispy white strands hung down nearly to his shoulder, a diaphanous curtain falling over his enormous ears, exposing his mottled scalp.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Monstrumologist

• “I buckled on my sword, and rode over to the gate where McNaghten and Mackenzie were already waiting, with a few native troopers; McNaghten, in his frock coat and top hat, was sitting a mule and damning the eyes of a Bombay Cavalry cornet; it seemed the escort was not ready, and Brigadier Shelton had not yet assembled the troops who were to overpower the Douranis.”

  Flashman

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