tuxedo

[ tuhk-see-doh ]
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noun,plural tux·e·dos.
  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.

Origin of tuxedo

1
1890–95, Americanism; short for Tuxedo coat, after country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

Other words from tuxedo

  • tux·e·doed, adjective

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How to use tuxedo in a sentence

  • When we'd set there an hour and was saturated with tea, the Wife says it was time to go up and change into our Tuxedos.

    Gullible's Travels, Etc. | Ring W. Lardner
  • Sack overcoats, rain-coats and Tuxedos, are pressed in the same way.

    The Copeland Method | Vanness Copeland
  • So I went down into my trunks, and disinterred four dress suits and three Tuxedos, together with all the appurtenances thereto.

    The Range Dwellers | B. M. Bower
  • The men wore tuxedos and the women wore party gowns, high-necked, of course, on account of its being a church affair.

    A Circuit Rider's Wife | Corra Harris
  • Many of the guests were dressed in tuxedos, others in sport shirts and slacks.

    Occasion for Disaster | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for tuxedo

tuxedo

/ (tʌkˈsiːdəʊ) /


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

Origin of tuxedo

1
C19: named after a country club in Tuxedo Park, New York

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