How To Use Swallow-tailed coat In A Sentence

• Two had blue swallow-tailed coats with brass buttons; and a fourth, a dashing young lawyer's clerk from Clement's Inn, was absolutely stirring a mixture, which he called a mint julep, with a yellow kid glove dangling out of his hand. The Three Clerks
  0 0
• He kept his hair very short, and indoors he wore an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat, refusing to adopt the formal fashion of his day.
  0 0
• I am not going back as far as the days of the corduroy and the swallow-tailed coat but what I remember myself.
  0 0
• He had for many years been a department subordinate at Washington; but, having accumulated some money, he had donned what was then known as senatorial costume -- namely, a blue swallow-tailed coat, and a buff vest, with brass buttons -- and coming to this little Michigan town he had established a Whig paper, which afterward became Republican. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
  0 0