tailcoat
- n formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
- At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned .
- In a tailcoat againthis time at an Astor ballhe met blonde Katherine Corri Harris, a Newport belle, wooed and won her against her father's wishes.
- Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie.