black-coat
n.— «The “black-coats” as the lawyers are being affectionately called these days, have never shown this kind of unity, nor this temerity, before.» —by Masud Alam in Islamabad, Pakistan BBC News (United Kingdom) Mar. 17, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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