Meanings of swallow-tailed coat in English

Signor Ercole had never been known to wear a swallow-tailed coat on any occasion.

He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.

So there he was, arrayed in jaunty cap, and a swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons.

He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and a sheath-knife.

An old negro appeared, dressed in a swallow-tailed coat.

Another jerked at the rear pockets of his swallow-tailed coat to pick out a thought there.

In very early boyhood, my Sunday suit was a swallow-tailed coat, and hat of the stove-pipe pattern.

He wore a suit of crimson velvet knee-breeches, and a little swallow-tailed coat with beautiful golden buttons.

His Lordship, stifling in a swallow-tailed coat, looked bleary and purple and rather like a peevish bull.

The Dwarf in his swallow-tailed coat and wearing a plug hat, and his face deeply furrowed with wrinkles.

He wore a loose swallow-tailed coat with bright brass buttons, and pants which were several inches too short.

He had on a white hat and a long swallow-tailed coat, the collar of which came clear up above his cars.

He wore a black, swallow-tailed coat, made, however, to set very loose upon his back, a black waistcoat, and black pantaloons.

He wore a cocked hat and a bluish-grey swallow-tailed coat and seemed very much out of breath from ascending the five flights of stairs.

The uniform of those days consisted in a schako, which spread out at the top; a short-waisted, swallow-tailed coat; and large, baggy trousers and gaiters.

When Michael had on his bottle-green swallow-tailed coat with the brass buttons, he invariably assumed a certain lofty air of ceremony in addressing his companions.