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dinner jacket

NOUN
men's formal jacket worn for eveningwear
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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

In a small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner jacket, ready for the red carpet at the Bafta Awards.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 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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