dinner jacket

noun

1. tuxedo ( def 1 ).

dinner jacket

noun

1. a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels AbbreviationsDJdj US and Canadian nametuxedo

Word History and Origins

Origin of dinner jacket¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him.

From The Daily Beast

Here, breakfast begins with a crusty cornetto alla crema served by a formal, dinner jacket-wearing waiter.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps, too, his attire helped to make his appearance attractive, and his velvet dinner-jacket suggested the artist or the poet.

From Project Gutenberg

A fair-headed man, in a dinner jacket and black tie, became at once their spokesman.

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Allen in his dinner jacket did not look like a laborer: he was far more her idea of a poet or a musician.

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She caught with her hands the lapels of his dinner jacket and looked pleadingly at him.

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As the dinner jacket is short, a top or silk hat can not be worn with it.

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