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dinner-jacketed

adj

Etymology

From dinner jacket + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Wearing a dinner jacket.

    • The English among the other sex, black-tied, dinner-jacketed, are men of the bench and bar, court officials, soldiers, wanderers from Pall Mall and Piccadilly who have come to Homburg to while away the month their favorite club is closed.
    • He led the way through the main entrance and marched right up to the immaculate, smug, dinner-jacketed man who was leaning in front of the desk.
    • But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA