dinner jacket
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dinner jacket
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So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.
noun dinner jackets · dinner-jacket
- A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket. Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.
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The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket.
[They] sat in a pen in the corner, smoking cigarettes and reading magazines; four or five girls in black silk dresses and the same number of slight effeminate young men in dinner-jackets.
Similar: black tie, penguin suit
Talk about this word "dinner jacket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dinner%20jacket. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dinner jacket. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dinner%20jacket "dinner jacket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dinner%20jacket.Cite this
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title = {dinner jacket},
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