dinner jacket

American

noun

tuxedo.

dinner jacket British

noun

Abbreviations: DJ. dj. US and Canadian name: tuxedo. a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels

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Etymology

Origin of dinner jacket

First recorded in 1890–95

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dinner jacket

Appleton first attended Ms Friel's home address towards the end of 2023 dressed in a dinner jacket and inviting her to come to a ball with him.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

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

Just minutes into the show, host Gary Collins pulled an envelope from his burgundy dinner jacket: the names of the 10 finalists.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

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

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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