dinner jacket
Noun
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Noun
dinner jacket (plural dinner jackets)
- (especially, US) A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket.
- 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, 2006, Chapter 2, p. 49,
- Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.
- 2012, Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists, Hachette, Chapter 10, p. 126,
- He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers.
- 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, 2006, Chapter 2, p. 49,
- (British) The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket.
- Synonyms: black tie, penguin suit
- cot en
- 1932, Nevil Shute, Lonely Road (novel), Chapter 2,
- [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.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 17,
- Mr Lackersteen was even wearing a dinner-jacket—white, because of the season—and was completely sober. The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice (novel), Penguin, 1972, Chapter 37, p. 162,
- It was a dinner-jacket evening—not tails, because they would only be three—and though he had respected such niceties for years he found them suddenly ridiculous.
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