dinner jacket

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noun

Origin of dinner jacket

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby dinner jacket

dinner, dinner clothes, dinner dance, dinner dress, dinner fork, dinner jacket, dinner knife, dinner lady, dinner pad, dinner plate, dinner ring

Example sentences from the Web for dinner jacket

Then looking at his dinner-jacket he begins brushing at it with his hand.

Mortal Coils |Aldous Huxley
Jack retorted; but he couldn't help laughing when Pat and I both seized his dinner-jacket.

The Lightning Conductor Discovers America |C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
He had a new dress-suit, too, and a dinner-jacket from the best tailor in town, ready packed for travelling.

Married Life |May Edginton
Say, I'll bet he don't know there is such a thing as a Tux—as a dinner-jacket.

Babbitt |Sinclair Lewis

He has assumed a collar and a dinner-jacket, and bustles round with every wish to please his customers.

A Corner of Spain |Walter Wood

British Dictionary definitions for dinner jacket

dinner jacket

noun

a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels Abbreviations: DJ, dj US and Canadian name: tuxedo

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