dinner jacket

noun

: a jacket for formal evening wear
dinner-jacketed adjective

Examples of dinner jacket in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To have some fun with color, midnight blue is a chic option, or try on a white dinner jacket. Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024 Matching his dad, Prince Jacques sports a bow tie and dinner jacket while leaning against his mother's shoulder. Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023 Here was a man who, faced with Britain’s imperial collapse, did not cower but dashed around the world with a dinner jacket and a pistol. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 José, wearing a Giorgio Armani dinner jacket, waited for her under a flower arch of ethereal pastel blooms. Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for dinner jacket 

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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 20 Sep. 2024.

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