frock-coated

He met a business man, silk-hatted and frock-coated, who had crept, too, along that smooth wall and stood now stone dead with wonder written on his lips.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

She's seriously bored now and the thought of the vanished, frock-coated rabbit she'd been trailing catches at her wandering mind.

Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler 2010

In L.A. for Phil Spector's murder trial, Dominick Dunne runs into a friend of the deceased, hitches a ride with famed "Mafia lawyer" Bruce Cutler, and catches up — in the men's room, of all places — with the frock-coated, gun-loving defendant.

August 2007 Table of Contents 2009

Formed where Broadway crosses ­Amsterdam Avenue at West 72nd Street, this small greenspace is named for Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the beloved Italian opera composer whose marble statue — supported by carved figures of four of his most memorable operatic characters — stands in frock-coated dignity amid the hubbub of the passing throng.

Joyful Noise Amid the Greenery 2009

Interpreted and misinterpreted, quoted and misquoted, Friedrich Engels — the frock-coated Victorian cotton lord — became one of the central architects of global communism.

'Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels' 2009

There is a veritable catalog of figures he does not like in this poem — the politicians, the hungry thousands, the homecoming lecturer, the frock-coated “new race of dung beetles”, the winter-bitten novelist and those who “hiss … of exile” (probably the same as the novelists).

“Hic Jacet” by Derek Walcott : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Octavian is definitely no longer one of the group – highly educated and nurtured in the bosom of frock-coated and genteel society, he now stands out as he makes his way through the world outside of the College, not able to feel entirely at home with either the Revolutionary soldiers or the former slaves in Lord Dunmore's Royal Ethiopian Regiment.

Archive 2008-11-01 a. fortis 2008

Ensconced in his organ loft at Paris's St. Clothilde Basilica, the saintly, frock-coated Belgian composer César Franck (1822-90) was known as "Pater Seraphicus" by his disciples.

Not Your Grandma's Organist 2008

He's in deep conversation with Gustav, a frock-coated, older man who appears to be some sort of mentor (played with apparently gracious deliberation by Owen Teale).

Noguchi's Sculptural Evolution 2008

Octavian is definitely no longer one of the group – highly educated and nurtured in the bosom of frock-coated and genteel society, he now stands out as he makes his way through the world outside of the College, not able to feel entirely at home with either the Revolutionary soldiers or the former slaves in Lord Dunmore's Royal Ethiopian Regiment.

The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson a. fortis 2008