"tailcoat" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈteɪlkoʊt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tailcoat.wav Forms: tailcoats [plural]
Etymology: From tail + coat. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|tail|coat}} tail + coat Head templates: {{en-noun}} tailcoat (plural tailcoats)
  1. A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat. Translations (formal evening jacket): ֆրակ (frak) (Armenian), фрак (frak) [masculine] (Bulgarian), frac [masculine, plural] (Catalan), 燕尾服 (yànwěifú) (Chinese Mandarin), jacquet [neuter] (Dutch), zwaluwstaart [masculine] (Dutch), frako (Esperanto), frakk (Estonian), frakkitakki (Finnish), hännystakki (Finnish), queue-de-pie [feminine] (French), frac [masculine] (French), ფრაკი (praḳi) (Georgian), Frack [masculine] (German), frac [masculine] (Italian), marsina [feminine] (Italian), 燕尾服 (embifuku) (alt: えんびふく) (Japanese), テールコート (tērukōto) (Japanese), фрак (frak) [masculine] (Macedonian), câsaque à coue d'héthonde [feminine] (Norman), frak [masculine] (Polish), fraque [masculine] (Portuguese), фрак (frak) [masculine] (Russian), frac [masculine] (Spanish), frack [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. Any coat with similar tails. Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (any coat with similar tails): hännystakki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-tailcoat-en-noun-gabuz9Z- Disambiguation of Clothing: 24 76 Disambiguation of 'any coat with similar tails': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tail coat [nonstandard] Derived forms: tails

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "formal evening jacket",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "frack"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any coat with similar tails",
      "word": "hännystakki"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tailcoat"
  ],
  "word": "tailcoat"
}

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