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
In a small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner jacket, ready for the red carpet at the Bafta Awards.
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
Pat, radiant in a ballerina-length accordion-pleated gown, stood before the makeshift altar adorned with evergreens and gladioli and said “I do” to Walter, dashing in a white dinner jacket.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
