tailcoat

See also: tail coat

English

A tailcoat.

Alternative forms

• tail coat (nonstandard)

Etymology

From tail +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈteɪlkoʊt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

tailcoat (plural tailcoats)

1. A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
2. Any coat with similar tails.

Derived terms

• tails

Translations

formal evening jacket

• Armenian: ֆրակ (hy) (frak)
• Bulgarian: фрак m (frak)
• Catalan: frac (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燕尾服 (zh) (yànwěifú)

• Dutch: jacquet (nl) n,zwaluwstaart (nl) m
• Esperanto: frako
• Estonian: frakk
• Finnish: frakkitakki, hännystakki (fi)
• French: queue-de-pie (fr) f, frac (fr) m
• Georgian: ფრაკი (praḳi)
• German: Frack (de) m
• Italian: frac (it) m, marsina (it) f
• Japanese: 燕尾服 (ja) (えんびふく, embifuku), テールコート (tērukōto)
• Macedonian: фрак m (frak)
• Norman: câsaque à coue d'héthonde f
• Polish: frak (pl) m
• Portuguese: fraque m
• Russian: фрак (ru) m (frak)
• Spanish: frac (es) m
• Swedish: frack (sv) c

any coat with similar tails

• Finnish: hännystakki (fi)

Anagrams

• coat-tail, coattail