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Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
Dale Robertson

Meaning of "dinner jacket" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DINNER JACKET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DINNER JACKET

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Dinner jacket is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DINNER JACKET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dinner jacket

Tuxedo

A tuxedo or dinner suit or dinner jacket is a formal evening suit distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain facings on the jacket's lapels and buttons and a similar stripe along the outseam of the trousers. The suit is typically black or midnight blue depending on choice of wear and commonly worn with a formal shirt, shoes and other accessories, most traditionally in the form prescribed by the black tie dress code.

Definition of dinner jacket in the English dictionary

The definition of dinner jacket in the dictionary is a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels Abbreviations: DJ, dj US and Canadian name: tuxedo.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DINNER JACKET

dinner
dinner bell
dinner dance
dinner duty
dinner hour
dinner knife
dinner knives
dinner lady
dinner money
dinner party
dinner plate
dinner roll
dinner service
dinner suit
dinner table
dinner theater
dinner theatre
dinner trolley
dinner wagon
dinner-dance

WORDS THAT END LIKE DINNER JACKET

Barbour jacket
biker jacket
bomber jacket
bracket
denim jacket
dust jacket
flak jacket
income bracket
jacket
packet
placket
pocket
price bracket
protection racket
racket
riding jacket
smoking jacket
straightjacket
upper income bracket
water jacket
yellow jacket

Synonyms and antonyms of dinner jacket in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dinner jacket» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DINNER JACKET

Find out the translation of dinner jacket to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dinner jacket from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dinner jacket» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男子礼服
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esmoquin
570 millions of speakers

English

dinner jacket
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डिनर जैकेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بَذْلَةٌ رَسْمِيَّةٌ لِلسَّهْرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смокинг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

smoking
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডিনার জ্যাকেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

smoking
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jaket makan malam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Smokingjacke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ディナージャケット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

약식 야회복
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jaket dandan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

áo veston dự tiệc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரவு ஜாக்கெட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिनर जॅकेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

smokin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abito da sera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

smoking
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

смокінг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

smoching
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σμόκιν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aandete baadjie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

smoking
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

smoking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dinner jacket

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DINNER JACKET»

The term «dinner jacket» is regularly used and occupies the 55.118 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DINNER JACKET» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dinner jacket» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dinner jacket» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dinner jacket

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5 QUOTES WITH «DINNER JACKET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dinner jacket.
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Lily Donaldson
One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.
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Noah Emmerich
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
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George Hamilton
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.
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Dale Robertson
Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
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Timothy West
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DINNER JACKET»

Discover the use of dinner jacket in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dinner jacket and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Napkin Folding for Every Occasion
As an elegant Dinner Jacket dressed in flawless white and true to style with black bowtie, a simple napkin can bring just the right touch of class to a festive occasion. The elegant appearance of the Dinner Jacket takes little effort to make, yet it ...
Doris Kuhn, 2005
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The Dinner Jacket Poems: Featuring the Short Story, 'Better ...
“THE DINNER JACKET POEMS” by Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell is an assemblage of poems with a collage of themes around 'courtly' love, religious fervor, and American Patriotism. His motifs over lap and blend with promises, dreamings, and ...
Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell, 2013
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Realism
self-portrait. in. Dinner-jacket. Equisetum hyemale Equisetum telemateia Equisetum hyemale Common horsetail, 12fold enlargement. MAX BECKMANN 1927 Oil on canvas, 141 x 96 cm Cambridge, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard  ...
Kerstin Stremmel, Uta Grosenick, 2004
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The Well-dressed Gentleman
Dinner jacket/Tuxedo The dinner jacket evolved at the end of the 19th century in the smoking rooms of English gentlemen. They wore this comfortable, warm, lined house jacket while adjourning to smoke in the saloons. (This is why the dinner ...
Oscar Lenius, Thomas Rusche, 2010
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Forsythia: A Memoir of Lost Generations
A fine piece in any room] Soames, held that torn letter in a hand thrust deep into the side-pocket of his dinner-jacket. Whereas the practice of dressing for dinner automatically meant, white tie and tails in the pre-Great War era of 'Forsythia', ...
Peter Hovenden Longley, 2012
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History of Men's Fashion: What the Well-dressed Man is Wearing
What the Well-dressed Man is Wearing Nicholas Storey. white tie with a dinner jacket would be castigated by the ignorant as incorrect — and seen by the rest as eccentric. If you disbelieve me on the options, take a look at the portrait, in Buck's  ...
Nicholas Storey, 2008
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Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
[B-126056] Traveling Expenses — Other Expenses — Rental of Dinner Jacket The rental of a dinner jacket by a Government official who is required to attend an official dinner while in a travel status overseas is not essential to the transaction of ...
United States. General Accounting Office, 1955
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Aberdeen High Jinks
involved a different kind of sacrifice—I needed to buy a white dinner jacket! The HiFis always had the same apparel for their performances. The men wore white dinner jackets and black trousers while the ladies wore black dresses. I had given ...
Steven Stoker, 2002
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Words: A User's Guide
dinner jacket noun, is a type of suit for men with a short jacket without tails that is worn at a formal dinner. This is usually black or white, and a bow tie (often black as well) is normal. The expression 'Dress: black tie' on an invitation means a ...
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark, 2014
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Service Etiquette
Nowadays, a more colorful dinner jacket is worn for cruises and less formal occasions. Trousers — Material matches the jacket with single stripe of matching colored braid or satin. Trousers are without cuffs. (Black trousers are also worn with ...
Oretha D. Swartz, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DINNER JACKET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dinner jacket is used in the context of the following news items.
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AC/DC Drummer Sentenced to 8 Months of Home Detention Over …
Dressed in a purple velour dinner jacket and jeans, he said little to waiting media as he entered the courthouse beyond thanking fans for their ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
2
James Bond will soon be inviting bids
James Bond returns to the big screen in November in Spectre, when Daniel Craig will once again dust off his dinner jacket and pick up his gun ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
3
Nell Nolan: Deb parties: Becker, McFaddenandTurner; McLellan …
Gracing the cover of the gateway invitation (which encouraged “music and passion; black tie — white dinner jacket, the fashion) was a “Carmen ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
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John Kass: Trump, Christie: Diluting the candidate pool for the Bush …
That's a relief. The nation was terrified he'd put on a white dinner jacket, red cummerbund and fox trot across Iowa in patent leather pumps. «Knoxville News Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Eoin McNamee: 'Redemption isn't the work of a writer'
To put judgement on hold when it's after midnight in a once-fashionable hotel, and the glamour and the ambition fit like a well-cut dinner jacket, ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Jean Dujardin's girlfriend is pregnant
The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those ... «NZCity, Jul 15»
7
Brookline ranch gets a glamorous makeover
It's as if a guy known for wearing the plainest of clothes suddenly appeared in a white dinner jacket and black tie. That's a good analogy for this ... «Boston.com, Jul 15»
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Midsomer Murders star Gwilym Lee: My style icon is Paul Newman …
A tailor-made Tom Ford velvet dinner jacket in a deep green or blue. I'm a hoarder. I have stuff that doesn't look so great now, but it might come ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Jean Dujardin to be dad again
The mustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those ... «Waterloo Record, Jul 15»
10
Do clothes make the comedian?
Yet, how bizarrely pompous it might seem to wear a dinner jacket to perform in a room above a pub? If the same comedian who just wears ... «Chortle, Jul 15»

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