Word: frocked
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...Murder." Raised on an east-central Texas cotton farm, Connally went off to college in 1891, heard a speech by the Democratic idol of the day, William Jennings Bryan, and was so smitten that he copied the great man's bow-tie-and-frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...
This full-dress regalia was first popularized in the 1890s by Prince Albert. It is dominated by a double-breasted frock coat but must also include a white pique shirt with a wing collar, a white pique waistcoat, black trousers with a satin stripe, black patent leather shoes, and a silk top hat. The hat may be stored neatly by collapsing it into a frisbee-like disk...
...single-breasted frock coat is the most important item in this outfit. Like tails, the morning coat dates back to the 18th century. But modern versions have lengthened lapels and are closed by a single button...
...tuxedo. This outfit is the only species of formal wear which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost its excellent name...
Margaret Rutherford, a dotty old duchess, is off to become the assistant social director of a Miami Beach hotel, and delay means nothing to her. To the audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...