"dinner jacket" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.",
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        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "word": "dinner-jacketed"
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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:",
          "text": "He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket."
      ],
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        "(especially US) A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket."
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        },
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          "sense": "jacket corresponding to a tuxedo jacket",
          "word": "smokkitakki"
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: smoking jacket"
        },
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          "ref": "1932, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Lonely Road:",
          "text": "[They] sat in a pen in the corner, smoking cigarettes and reading magazines; four or five girls in black silk dresses and the same number of slight effeminate young men in dinner-jackets.",
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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:",
          "text": "Mr Lackersteen was even wearing a dinner-jacket—white, because of the season—and was completely sober. The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.",
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        {
          "ref": "1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 37, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 162:",
          "text": "It was a dinner-jacket evening—not tails, because they would only be three—and though he had respected such niceties for years he found them suddenly ridiculous.",
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        "The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket."
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        "(British) The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket."
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    {
      "word": "dinner-jacketed"
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          "text": "He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers.",
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      ],
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          "text": "Coordinate term: smoking jacket"
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          "text": "Mr Lackersteen was even wearing a dinner-jacket—white, because of the season—and was completely sober. The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate.",
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          "ref": "1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 37, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 162:",
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      "sense": "jacket corresponding to a tuxedo jacket",
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