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Tuxedo   /tˌəksˈidoʊ/   Listen
Tuxedo

noun
(pl. tuxedos, tuxedoes)
1.
Semiformal evening dress for men.  Synonyms: black tie, dinner jacket, tux.






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"Tuxedo" Quotes from Famous Books



... mean? By Jove, there was nothing in the papers, now that I come to think of it. I went the next morning out to Tuxedo and forgot—what do you mean by ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker

... but amused. Proposals of marriage—and Jimmy seemed to be moving swiftly towards one—were no novelty in her life. In the course of several seasons at Bar Harbor, Tuxedo, Palm Beach, and in New York itself, she had spent much of her time foiling and discouraging the ardour of a series of sentimental youths who had laid their ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... you mean? You surely do not intend to wear your tuxedo and a black tie. I heard you say it was the worst of form at ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) • Various

... admonition of the Lord; but if he went to pay them a pastoral call and have prayers with them, apt as not he would find that they had gone to take the children to the matinee. And Brother A and Brother I were the best stewards he ever had, but they would do anything from wearing a tuxedo to going to a circus. I can never forget Brother I's prayers. Although he was modest and retiring to the point of shyness he was one of the few members in the church at Celestial Bells who could be depended upon to lead in prayer. This was ...
— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

... frock, tuxedo, cutaway, paletot, dreadnaught, ulster, capote, blouse, redingote, toga, cloak, surtout, duster, mackintosh, joseph, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... was champagne bubbling at a score of sideboards where noiseless waiters poured it into goblets as broad and flat as floating water-lily leaves. And through it all moved the shepherds and shepherdesses of that beautiful Arcadia—the shepherds in their Tuxedo jackets, with vast white shirt-fronts broad as the map of Africa, with spotless white waistcoats girdling their equators, wearing heavy gold watch-chains and little patent shoes blacker than sin itself—and ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock



Words linked to "Tuxedo" :   evening dress, evening clothes, eveningwear, formalwear



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