dinner-jacketed
adjEtymology From dinner jacket + -ed.
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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.1901 September 16, “Gossip From Abroad; King Edward And Englanders At Homburg; In The Height Of The Season; King Alfred Millenary Exhibition—Ancient Irish Gold Ornaments—News From The Emerald Isle”, in The Sun, volume CXXIX, number 105, Baltimore, Md., page 9:
- 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.1909 March 7, “Little Stories of Fact and Fancy: Slightly and Slightingly Mistaken”, in The New York Times, volume LVIII, number 18,670, New York, N.Y., part five, page 9:
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- But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today.2020 January 2, Colin Robson, “The BBC should look to the future”, in Evening Standard, page 11: