tuxedo
a man's jacket
TRANSLATION
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STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
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The company reported that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 23% as TUXEDO rental sales benefited from an earlier Easter, boosting overall revenue.
(Wall Street Journal)
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In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event. Men have the same TUXEDO.
(Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli)
The company reported that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 23% as TUXEDO rental sales benefited from an earlier Easter, boosting overall revenue.
(Wall Street Journal)
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In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event. Men have the same TUXEDO.
(Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli)
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tuxedo (British English = dinner jacket)
noun
1. A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions. Also called dinner jacket.
2. A complete outfit including this jacket, trousers usually with a silken stripe down the side, a bow tie, and often a cummerbund.
Note: In the U.S. if the invitation specifies "Black Tie" this would be the expected dress-code for gentlemen:
Black Tuxedo Coat
Black Formal Trousers (with satin outseam)
White Formal Shirt
Vest or Cummerbund with Coordinating Tie
Button Studs and Cuff Links
Black Dress Shoes
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The word tuxedo traces back to "P'tuksit," a Delaware Indian word for wolf, but the path to English was rather complex.
The P'tuksit were a group of Delaware Indians who lived in eastern North America. English speakers translated P'tuksit as tuxedo and used that term to name a village in eastern New York.
In the 1880s, a fashionable resort called Tuxedo Park was built in the area of the village. This is where the dress suit now known as the tuxedo was first worn and the suit took its name from the resort.
As a trivia note, more than half of the names of the U.S. states were borrowed from Native American words, including:
- Kentucky = Indian word variously translated as "dark and bloody ground," "meadow land" and "land of tomorrow."
- Connecticut = From Mohican and other Algonquin words meaning "long river place."
- Arkansas = French interpretation of a Sioux word acansa, meaning "downstream place."
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SYNONYMS
black tie, tux, dinner jacket, smoking jacket
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you need a tuxedo for the awards ceremony, you can rent one."
noun
1. A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions. Also called dinner jacket.
2. A complete outfit including this jacket, trousers usually with a silken stripe down the side, a bow tie, and often a cummerbund.
Note: In the U.S. if the invitation specifies "Black Tie" this would be the expected dress-code for gentlemen:
Black Tuxedo Coat
Black Formal Trousers (with satin outseam)
White Formal Shirt
Vest or Cummerbund with Coordinating Tie
Button Studs and Cuff Links
Black Dress Shoes
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The word tuxedo traces back to "P'tuksit," a Delaware Indian word for wolf, but the path to English was rather complex.
The P'tuksit were a group of Delaware Indians who lived in eastern North America. English speakers translated P'tuksit as tuxedo and used that term to name a village in eastern New York.
In the 1880s, a fashionable resort called Tuxedo Park was built in the area of the village. This is where the dress suit now known as the tuxedo was first worn and the suit took its name from the resort.
As a trivia note, more than half of the names of the U.S. states were borrowed from Native American words, including:
- Kentucky = Indian word variously translated as "dark and bloody ground," "meadow land" and "land of tomorrow."
- Connecticut = From Mohican and other Algonquin words meaning "long river place."
- Arkansas = French interpretation of a Sioux word acansa, meaning "downstream place."
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SYNONYMS
black tie, tux, dinner jacket, smoking jacket
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you need a tuxedo for the awards ceremony, you can rent one."
