dinner jacket

American  

noun

1. tuxedo.

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dinner jacket British  

noun

1. 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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dinner jacket

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

Another of his men walked in a watery white dinner jacket.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

For his encore, Sir Elton appeared in his third outfit - a long black dinner jacket with pink patterned lapel, completed with a pair of pink and black heart-shaped glasses.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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

He was talking to an Arab man in a tight dinner jacket.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie