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noun

Tuxedo coat, Tuxedo n.

A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. (U. S.)

The complete semiformal evening suit, including the tuxedo jacket, matching trousers, and black bow tie, and usually including a cummerbund; the style of shirt worn with this suit varies, and the outfit may include a dickey.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tuxedo coat" Quotes from Famous Books

... sack, jacket, frock, tuxedo, cutaway, paletot, dreadnaught, ulster, capote, blouse, redingote, toga, cloak, surtout, duster, mackintosh, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... dinner-station we've struck where we can get a real good plate of beans.' And while he was up in his room trying to draw water out of the gas-pipe, I got one finger in the buttonhole of the head waiter's Tuxedo, drew him apart, inserted a two-dollar bill, and closed ...

— Heart of the West • O. Henry