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dinner jacket

NOUN
men's formal jacket worn for eveningwear
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One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2025

Henry Poole, credited with creating the dinner jacket, or tuxedo, has held a British royal warrant since the 1860s when it supplied Queen Victoria.

From Reuters May 2, 2023

Another of his men walked in a watery white dinner jacket.

From Seattle Times Sep. 14, 2022

Open crowd, earning him an invitation to last year’s Met Gala, where he wore a white dinner jacket on the red carpet.

From New York Times May 22, 2022

He was talking to an Arab man in a tight dinner jacket.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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