tuxedo

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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado - The Rat Pack - composed of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop - existed in a time when smoking and drinking was cool, womanizing wasn't yet politically incorrect and wearing a tuxedo was the height of style.

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  1. noun A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions. Also called dinner jacket.
  2. noun A complete outfit including this jacket, trousers usually with a silken stripe down the side, a bow tie, and often a cummerbund.

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  • But he clearly does own a tuxedo, as THIS EMBEDDED MEDIA will prove.
  • He looked like an undertaker in his black tuxedo, and she felt a little shiver as he stopped in the doorway and cast his pale eyes about the dim, elegantly appointed room. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • Tony wore a tuxedo, a ruffled shirt, and his lounge-lizard smirk. —  The Tree of Death
  • The Mr. Steak stain on his tuxedo was quickly joined by punch on his shirt and a slice of cake in his lap and two unidentifiable stains that may have come from Eli himself. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
  • Cleo was wearing a traditional tuxedo, and she looked pretty darn good in it. —  Charlaine Harris - Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead
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  1. Short for Tuxedo coat, after a country club at Tuxedo Park, a village of southeast New York.
 

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