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Word: frockcoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Englishman in Adversity | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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