women's long coat; dress coat
A long coat worn by women, often as part of formal or dressy attire. Wasei-eigo: not the same as the English 'dress coat' (men's formal tailcoat).
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from dress coat
She went to the party wearing a dress coat.
It's still cold in early spring, so a dress coat comes in handy.
Variant spelling with a middle dot; less common but seen in some contexts.
Wasei-eigo (Japanese-made English) from 'dress' + 'coat'. Despite the English source words, it refers to a women's long coat, not a men's formal tailcoat.