See dinner jacket on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.",
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"ref": "1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 49:",
"text": "Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.",
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"ref": "2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 10, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Hachette, page 126:",
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"(especially US) A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket."
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"text": "Coordinate term: smoking jacket"
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"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 17”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 37, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 162:",
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"word": "dinner jacket"
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