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tuxedo

noun as in black tie

Strongest match

Weak match

noun as in dinner jacket

noun as in suit

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Barker wore a Spencer Hart tuxedo jacket to Tuesday evening’s auction, but he was back in his usual suit on Thursday.

The women would be attired in colorful ball gowns—blush pink, scarlet, sapphire blue, and forest green—and the men in tuxedos.

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I rented a boy’s tuxedo, Lynn wore a gown, we got a limousine and stepped out onto the red carpet together.

The president went upstairs and put on a tuxedo and white bow tie.

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Afterwards Nawat appeared at a press conference wearing a tuxedo and openly weeping as he theatrically dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief, claiming he had been "betrayed".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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