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View synonyms for dinner jacket

dinner jacket

dinner jacket

noun

  1. a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels AbbreviationsDJdj US and Canadian nametuxedo
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dinner jacket1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him.

Here, breakfast begins with a crusty cornetto alla crema served by a formal, dinner jacket-wearing waiter.

Perhaps, too, his attire helped to make his appearance attractive, and his velvet dinner-jacket suggested the artist or the poet.

A fair-headed man, in a dinner jacket and black tie, became at once their spokesman.

Allen in his dinner jacket did not look like a laborer: he was far more her idea of a poet or a musician.

She caught with her hands the lapels of his dinner jacket and looked pleadingly at him.

As the dinner jacket is short, a top or silk hat can not be worn with it.

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