dinner jacket

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Appleton first attended Ms Friel's home address towards the end of 2023 dressed in a dinner jacket and inviting her to come to a ball with him.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 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

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

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

The day after Wayne Parr said he had chosen powder blue for his dinner jacket, three- quarters of the boys ordered the same from Tuxedo Junction.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli