dinner jacketn.
/ˈdɪnə ˌdʒakɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɪnər ˌdʒækət/ A man's jacket without tails for wearing on formal occasions in the evening, typically black and worn with a white shirt and black bow tie (cf. black tie n.). Originally as a somewhat less formal alternative to a swallow-tailed dress coat.
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1852 Ladies' Compan. Jan. 55/2 A dinner-jacket made of black cashmere, ornamented with rows of gold ribbon.
1911 H. H. Fyfe S. Afr. To-day xxiii. 257 The talk of women in pretty frocks and of men in dinner-jackets is about theatre-going in London.
1968 Listener 6 June 748/1 The struggle to rescue opera from the dinner-jacket brigade and to present it to ordinary people at reasonable prices.
2007 Times 10 Mar. (Body & Soul section) 6/1 He is wearing an impeccable dinner jacket, with diamond shirt studs.
Derivatives
ˌdinner-ˈjacketed adj. dressed in a dinner jacket.
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1901 Daily Mail 19 Aug. 4/5 The English among the other sex, black-tied, dinner-jacketed, are men off the Bench and Bar.
2020 Tamworth Herald Series (Nexis) 16 Apr. (National ed. 1) Dinner-jacketed presenters gave way to cheeky young things in sweaters and regional accents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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