dinner jacket

noun

: a jacket for formal evening wear
dinner-jacketed adjective

Examples of dinner jacket in a Sentence

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William Holden wears a scarlet dinner jacket...and lives to tell about it! Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025 The men will be properly — not to mention attractively — clad in dinner jackets, while many of the women hardly bother to dress up. Judith Martin, Mercury News, 16 June 2025 These stars decided to stand out in something entirely different, from Timothée Chalamet's all-yellow ensemble to Andrew Garfield's shiny brown shirt to Jeremy Strong's artichoke-green Loro Piano tux to Colman Domingo's vibrant cardinal-red dinner jacket. Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025 Pelley was wearing a white dinner jacket, and Purdy was wearing a long pink gown with short sleeves. David Owen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dinner jacket

Word History

First Known Use

1891, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dinner jacket was in 1891

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“Dinner jacket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner%20jacket. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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