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Tuxedo — Tux*e do, Tuxedo coat Tux*e do coat , n. 1. A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; so named after a fashionable country club… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tuxedo coat — Tuxedo Tux*e do, Tuxedo coat Tux*e do coat , n. 1. A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; so named after a fashionable… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tuxedo — This article is about the formal suit specifically. For a discussion of its accessories and etiquette, see Black Tie. For other uses, see Tuxedo (disambiguation). Four men in tuxedos (note that the two in the center wear shawl collars while those … Wikipedia
tuxedo — ☆ tuxedo [tuk sē′dō ] n. pl. tuxedos [after the name of a country club at Tuxedo Park, near Tuxedo Lake, N.Y.] 1. Now Rare a man s semiformal jacket for evening wear, orig. black and with satin lapels; dinner jacket 2. a suit of such a jacket and … English World dictionary
tuxedo — man s evening dress for semiformal occasions, 1889, named for Tuxedo Park, N.Y., site of a country club where it first was worn in 1886. The name is an attractive subject for elaborate speculation, e.g.: The Wolf tribe in New York was called in… … Etymology dictionary
tuxedo — ► NOUN (pl. tuxedos or tuxedoes) chiefly N. Amer. 1) a man s dinner jacket. 2) a formal evening suit including such a jacket. DERIVATIVES tuxedoed adjective. ORIGIN from Tuxedo Park, the site of a country club in New York … English terms dictionary
tuxedo — [tʌkˈsiːdəʊ] or tux [tʌks] noun [C] a dinner jacket … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
Jacket lapel — Lapel redirects here. For the town, see Lapel, Indiana. An unorthodox peaked lapel Jacket lapels are the folded flaps of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat, and are most commonly found on formal clothing and suit jackets. Usually they are… … Wikipedia
Tuxedo — A man attending a formal affair today may wear a tuxedo and a black tie or a full dress coat and a white tie. At one time, however, only the latter style was acceptable; the tailless formal jacket was unknown until the 1800s. The Algonquian … Dictionary of eponyms
tuxedo — tuxedoed, adj. /tuk see doh/, n., pl. tuxedos. 1. Also called dinner jacket. a man s jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels. 2. the… … Universalium
