dinner jacket

noun

: a jacket for formal evening wear
dinner-jacketed adjective

Examples of dinner jacket in a Sentence

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Hundreds of teaspoons covered the floor, dozens of cocktail glasses were suspended from a dinner jacket and red arms with white fur fingernails reached out from the wall towards a mannequin’s head that was a mass of red roses. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 July 2025 One fellow produced a deck of cards from his dinner jacket—the onboard magician. Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2025 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 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 1 Sep. 2025.

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