tuxedo

[ tuhk-see-doh ]

/ tʌkˈsi doʊ /

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noun, plural tux·e·dos.

Also called dinner jacket. a man's jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark-blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels.

the complete semiformal outfit, including this jacket, dark trousers, often with silk stripes down the sides, a bow tie, and usually a cummerbund.

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Origin of tuxedo

1890–95, Americanism; short for Tuxedo coat, after country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

Related formstux·e·doed, adjective

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The tuxedo, Monáe explains, symbolizes control to her: “Superheroes wear the same thing every day, too.”
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The Pote finished his dishwashing and joined us, pulling on an old Tuxedo jacket.
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More than once, Vanbrugh felt again the strong impulse to which he had almost yielded at Tuxedo.
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British Dictionary definitions for tuxedo

tuxedo

/ (tʌkˈsiːdəʊ) /

noun plural -dos

the usual US and Canadian name for dinner jacket Often shortened to: tux

Word Origin for tuxedo

C19: named after a country club in Tuxedo Park, New York

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Word Origin and History for tuxedo

tuxedo

man's evening dress for semiformal occasions, 1889, named for Tuxedo Park, N.Y., site of a country club where it first was worn in 1886. The name is an attractive subject for elaborate speculation, e.g.:

The Wolf tribe in New York was called in scorn by other Algonquians tuksit: round foot, implying that they easily fell down in surrender. In their region thus came the names Tuxedo and Tuxedo Lake, which were acquired by the Griswold family in payment of a debt. There the family established the exclusive Tuxedo Club, and there in the late 1880s Griswold Lorillard first appeared in a dinner jacket without tails, a tuxedo. By a twist of slang, one may now refer to a man in a tuxedo as a 'wolf. [Joseph T. Shipley, "The Origins of English Words," 1984]

But in another version of the story, p'tuksit was the Algonquian word for "wolf," the animal, perhaps from the shape of its paws. The authoritative Bright, however, says the tribe's name probably is originally a place name, perhaps Munsee Delaware (Algonquian) p'tuck-sepo "crooked river." Short form tux is attested from 1922.

tuxedo

noun, plural tux·e·dos.

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