dinner jacket

noun

: a jacket for formal evening wear
dinner-jacketed adjective

Examples of dinner jacket in a Sentence

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In addition to the ivory dinner jacket, Marchitelli crafted two other looks for Allen. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 The Club's central staircase is the sort that Bond might descend slowly in a dinner jacket alongside the American ambassador; these days guests rush up and down it in trainers. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Rather than going with a classic black penguin suit, Kelly and his team, which consists of stylist Warren Alfie Baker and his groomer Jessica Ortiz, put a fun twist on the archetype by sporting a chestnut brown dinner jacket. Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026 Concert review: Pitbull's Phoenix concert had the hottest hits and coolest dinner jackets How to get tickets to Pitbull in Phoenix Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. local time Friday, Jan. 30, at LiveNation.com. Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 15 Jan. 2026 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 18 Jun. 2026.

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