dinner jacket
Example Sentences
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One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Henry Poole, credited with creating the dinner jacket, or tuxedo, has held a British royal warrant since the 1860s when it supplied Queen Victoria.
From Reuters ● May 2, 2023
Just minutes into the show, host Gary Collins pulled an envelope from his burgundy dinner jacket: the names of the 10 finalists.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
When he walked onstage to accept his Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain,” he wore bluejeans and cowboy boots below his dinner jacket.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
I didn’t want them to see me in my dinner jacket, for some reason.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
