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tuxedo

[ tuhk-see-doh ]

noun

plural tuxedos.
  1. Also called dinner jacket. a man's jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark-blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels.
  2. the complete semiformal outfit, including this jacket, dark trousers, often with silk stripes down the sides, a bow tie, and usually a cummerbund.


tuxedo

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noun

  1. the usual US and Canadian name for dinner jacket Often shortened totux
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tuxedo1

1890–95, Americanism; short for Tuxedo coat, after country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tuxedo1

C19: named after a country club in Tuxedo Park , New York
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Arriving on stage in a sparkly tuxedo dress, she rearranged her hits Espresso and Please Please Please in a jazzy big band style, and even delivered a fleet-footed tap dance sequence.

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I have faked more smiles in a tuxedo than Daniel Craig’s entire run as James Bond.

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As the audience cheers, the atmosphere becomes even more electric as Carey — wearing a gold metallic tuxedo jacket, a throwback to Old Hollywood glamour — emerges onstage to a resounding chorus of “Drew! Drew! Drew!â€

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Black was very much the new black as stars posed for pictures in Los Angeles, with a huge number of the nominees wearing dark dresses and tuxedos.

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Four weeks later, on the day of the concert, Hulthage purchased a tuxedo but had yet to change as he helped set up chairs for the strings in the transept of Westwood United Methodist Church.

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