tuxedo

[tuhk-see-doh]

noun

plural

tuxedos 

1. 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.

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

tuxedo

/ tʌkˈsiːdəʊ /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• tuxedoed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tuxedo¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tuxedo¹

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

Example Sentences

The putrid chamber drama becomes a fantasia, befouled rags turn into tuxedo pants and it’s finally safe to belt how they feel.

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Delighting in the performance and applauding from the floor pit are gender-bending members of the new bohemia, alongside champagne-sipping deputies in tuxedos of the Berlin elite.

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The total price for a public marriage license, and a county-officiated marriage ceremony with witnesses, will cost a total of about $422 — not including other niceties such as flowers, tuxedos and gowns.

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Cooper had better get his Emmys tuxedo back to the dry-cleaners.

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For more than a half-century, the tiny mountain gathering has thrived as a kind of anti-festival: no red carpets, no prizes, no tuxedos, just movies.

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Related Words

• cloak 
• frock 
• jacket 
• overcoat 
• raincoat 
• suit 
• windbreaker 
• wrap