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

Example Sentences

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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

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

When he walked onstage to accept his Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain,” he wore bluejeans and cowboy boots below his dinner jacket.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

The day after Wayne Parr said he had chosen powder blue for his dinner jacket, three- quarters of the boys ordered the same from Tuxedo Junction.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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