tailcoat
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tail·coat
(tāl′kōt′)n.
A black coat worn for formal occasions and having a long rounded and split tail. Also called swallowtail, swallow-tailed coat.
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Noun | 1. | tailcoat - formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear, formalwear - attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening morning coat, swallowtail, swallow-tailed coat - a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tailcoat
tail coat [ˈteɪlkəʊt] n → queue f de pietail end n [season, conversation] → fin f
[procession] → queue f
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