box-coat

“The moral of all this is that a pretty woman will never acknowledge as her husband, nor even as a lover, a man in an old box-coat, a tow wig, and boots with holes in them.”

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

“The moral of all this is that a pretty woman will never acknowledge as her husband, nor even as a lover, a man in an old box-coat, a tow wig, and boots with holes in them.”

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

He was no more like the Chabert of the old box-coat than a cartwheel double sou is like

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

He was no more like the Chabert of the old box-coat than a cartwheel double sou is like

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

Two ancient hats hung to their respective nails, near which also hung the self-same blue box-coat with three capes, in which the countess had always seen Schmucke when he came to give his lessons.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

I put on my own coachman's box-coat, Sir, and drove 'em home myself.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

Come now, think better of it; put on my box-coat, and catch hold of 'em, there's

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

When going out, they fold a blue blanket over all, and put on a regular, unpicturesque, stove-pipe hat, with a band of tin-foil around it, -- which makes them look like one of those mulatto coachmen one sees now and then on the box of a _bonton_ barouche, with his silver-mounted hat and double-caped blue box-coat.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

But the box-coat is like wine; it unlocks the tongue, and men say what they think.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

The blows were caught on the thick arm of a tan box-coat.

Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924