dinner jacket

English

Etymology

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

Noun

dinner jacket (plural dinner jackets)

(US) A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket.
(Britain) What the US terms a tuxedo, nearly always in black.

Translations

tuxedo — see tuxedo

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