Dinner jacket

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket. US, especially

    "Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade."

  2. 2
    semiformal evening dress for men wordnet
  3. 3
    The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket. British

    "[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."

Etymology

So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.

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