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Dress Coat

Webster's Dictionary

A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dress Coat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dress-coat.html. 1828.