swallow-tail

Below the belt the garment cut back and down just as sharply to come together in a swallow-tail like a formal coat.

Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

Tall, angular and awkward, he had on a short-waisted, thin swallow-tail coat, a short vest of the same material, thin pantaloons, scarcely coming to his ankles, a straw hat and a pair of brogans with woolen socks.

hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Polygon, the County Clerk 2007

His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.

Les Miserables 2008

Doguereau wore a black coat with vast square skirts, when fashion required swallow-tail coats.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

He lectured one night in “a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all,” as he later described it, and dubbed this “delightful impudence” his “dontcaradam suit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He lectured one night in “a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all,” as he later described it, and dubbed this “delightful impudence” his “dontcaradam suit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He was nearly six feet high, stood quite upright, and always wore a black swallow-tail coat, black trousers, and a black silk waistcoat.

Phineas Finn 2004

It is a green and gold swallow-tail, with azure-blue and spoon-shaped tails, and was often seen flying about the village when the sun shone, but in

The Malay Archipelago 2004

On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimneypot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The laws of livery were then more stringent; the ritual of the green baize apron for cleaning silver; of the striped waistcoat and swallow-tail black coat for opening the hall door, was more closely observed.

Flush: a biography 2004