0 a coat that reaches the knees, worn by men, especially in the past --
He wears a frock coat, vest, pants and boots, while holding a cane and petting a wounded dog.
The frock coat was still the standard garment for all formal or business occasions, and a tailcoat was worn in the evenings.
At this period, the frock coat became the most standard form of coat for formal day time dress.
From 1840, they wore a long-skirted frock coat.
She liked to fashion her own clothes, which, in addition to the slacks, included boots and a black artist frock coat.
She said she had seen a gentleman in a silk hat and frock coat walking along the corridor, and she thought he was a professional man.
The children are dressed in period costume and a teacher sits at a high desk wearing a winged collar and frock coat and holding a cane.
We want to see democracy govern, and we object to any form of dictatorship which happens to be dressed in a frock coat or tall hat.