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Prince Albert-coated
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English
Etymology
From en Prince Albert coat ed.
Adjective
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Wearing a Prince Albert coat.
en A “Foreigner’s” Views: Colonel Mussey’s Impressions: Of His Travels Through West Virginia—The Democratic State Ticket—The “Register’s” Worriment—Pen Pictures of Prominent West Virginians—Republican Prospects The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/171737958/ XXXII 297 Wheeling, West Va. 5 August 1884 section “Pen Pictures of West Virginians” Dovener is slight, brown-mustached and Prince Albert-coated, and goes at a matter like a terrier at a rat.
en Current Observations The Anaconda Standard III 13 Anaconda, Mont. 17 September 1891 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/354706642/ The modern masculine costume is the horror alike of sculptors and spectators. Its utter unfitness for use in art is painfully conspicuous in Prince Albert-coated Cox as he stands in Astor place, with his right arm raised in the heroic effort to hail a fourth avenue horse car.
en William O. Wallace Princess in medicine show (The Stroller) The Vidette-Messenger Valparaiso, Ind. 1950s–1962 8 May 1987 section “Boys do work” 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/333148917/ Silk-hatted and Prince Albert-coated, ‘Dr.’ Starkee walks majestically ahead, swinging a gold headed cane.
en Susan Molloy Oklahoma!—musical that spells success: A simple theme that made millions w:The Sydney Morning Herald 45,046 15 May 1982 14 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/122687004/ He [Oscar Hammerstein II] has said he never knew his paternal grandfather [Oscar Hammerstein I] well. The top-hatted, Prince Albert-coated, stripped-trousered figure with the goatee and the big cigar was too busy to spend much time with his grandson.