Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A white bow tie worn as a part of men's formal evening dress.
- n. Men's formal evening dress.
Wiktionary
- n. The most formal kind of eveningwear, usually worn on state occasions and the like, consisting of an evening tailcoat, trousers, white shirt, white bow tie and waistcoat with sash, alternatively, full military dress, or national costume.
Examples
“I saw that it was an etiquette, like not wearing a white tie with a dinner-jacket, and shaved off my moustache.”
“Back in Schloss Gymnisch we got done up for the white tie state dinner. . .”
“a wreath for rivera death in a white tie enter a murderer overture to death death of a fool hand in glove night at the vulcan singing in the shrouds”
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