dinner jacket

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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

Things like making Pinocchio and Geppetto - and his dinner jacket - which might get an outing in Hollywood when the Oscars come around.

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

I didn’t want them to see me in my dinner jacket, for some reason.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger