morning-coat

• “I think she thought that Joan would look at her through a lorgnette, and that Stenning would wear a morning-coat and talk about the League.”

  Fictionaut: Movie Night

• “Scollay, dressed in a morning-coat and a ruffled shirt and striped trousers, shot me a hard look, and don't think I didn't see it.”

  Fictionaut: The Body Ricardo

• “And Days, dressed in his morning-coat finery, will once again appear before the Supreme Court to argue the meaning of yet another aspect of child-pornography law.”

  Newsweek: Uneasy Days In Court

• “Lord Petre sat up wearily, reluctantly taking the velvet morning-coat that Jenkins held out to him, and sliding his feet into the slippers that had been placed beside the bed.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Scandal of the Season

• “Verona; he was crammed into the morning-coat he wore to teas thrice”

  Babbit

• “The man was attired in a loose-fitting, common, black-cloth morning-coat.”

  Barchester Towers

• “This light morning-coat came most inopportunely; it spoilt the whole man for me such as I had fancied him.”

  Hunger

• “He would come in full of fresh little anxieties, full of the cut of a morning-coat, of the shape of a felt hat, of the proper size for his visiting-cards.”

  Pierre And Jean

• “One of them, young and pink-faced, with a shaven head, was wearing a morning-coat and striped trousers and, from time to time, wiped the lenses of his gold-rimmed spectacles.”

  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets

• “The bed was just as Émile Gallet must have found it when he came into the room; the black morning-coat of hard-wearing cloth was hanging all limp from the wall.”

  Maigret Stonewalled

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