dinner jacket
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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
Things like making Pinocchio and Geppetto - and his dinner jacket - which might get an outing in Hollywood when the Oscars come around.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
I found him one evening in the virtual club’s dingy bathroom chatting with a giant fox, a couple of skater girls and a guy in a dinner jacket smoking a cigarette.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Another of his men walked in a watery white dinner jacket.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
I didn’t want them to see me in my dinner jacket, for some reason.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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