frock-coats

But what it does is release him from the tyranny of frock-coats and antimacassars, and capture the mad, wild poetry at the heart of the play.

The great expressionist experiment: theatre seizes the essence of life Michael Billington 2010

Quaintly charming story of two pretty sisters who walk about pretty gardens in pretty frocks, and fall in love with handsome men who stand about in handsome libraries wearing handsome frock-coats and looking handsome.

Archive 2009-06-01 juliette 2009

Quaintly charming story of two pretty sisters who walk about pretty gardens in pretty frocks, and fall in love with handsome men who stand about in handsome libraries wearing handsome frock-coats and looking handsome.

Shite, Camera, Action juliette 2009

The gentlemen universally wore the moustache and beard, and generally blue or green frock-coats, the collars turned over with velvet.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Bells were promptly set ringing in its inmost recesses; a fuss and bustle arose; men of good appearance in black frock-coats skipped out at the principal entrance; a door-keeper who was a blaze of gold opened the carriage doors with

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Royal-Institution-Afternoon Lecturer, the very newest shape in frock-coats and long patent shoes, and altogether in a state of extraordinary streakiness between an owlish great man and a scared abashed self-conscious bounder cruelly exposed.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

I know frock-coats are supposed to be double-breasted, but I think it was the shiny fabric, and the way it falls over the hips that made me think of...well, Dangerous Liaisons.

must ... resist ... nostalgia ... - A Dress A Day 2006

Johns and Honourable Georges would come in a sort of amphibious costume, half-morning, half-evening, satin neck-handkerchiefs, frock-coats, primrose gloves, and polished boots; and that, being so dressed, they would decline riding at the quintain, or taking part in any of the athletic games which Miss Thorne had prepared with so much fond care.

Barchester Towers 2004

“Probably more, but surely they suppressed it; even in their dresses, always more stuff than was needed; frock-coats, high collars, cravats, bustles, button boots.”

Over the River 2004

He was exceedingly well dressed according to standards prevailing in those days, indulging in flowered waistcoats, long, light-colored frock-coats, and the invariable (for a fairly prosperous man) high hat.

The Financier 2004