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dinner jackets

n. (dinner jacket English)

Usage examples of "dinner jackets".

Squeezed into dinner jackets, with celluloid cunts in tow: crispy, crunchy, cute.

We were all turned out in black dinner jackets and boiled shirts, cummerbunds, patent leather shoes, the whole bit.

Some were with Frenchmen in dinner jackets, some with German officers.

The dinner jackets on Larry, Pender, and Big Mac looked more like gray fur than black wool.

Majors and colonels whom I was accustomed to seeing in functional khakis strutted around in waist-length dinner jackets with shoulder boards that advertised their rank in gold and red.

Uniforms thronged past, with only a sprinkling of dinner jackets on white-headed or bald men.

And to the bar they attached the many day suits, morning coats, dinner jackets, tail suits, ceremonial and dress uniforms of the first general to command the Heights.

The men were all dressed in immaculately tailored dinner jackets, while the women wore long gowns of subdued colours and modest cut.

Two dinner jackets were hanging in the locker, and three dress shirts in cellophane bags fresh from the hotel laundry, but there was no underwear where there was supposed to be underwear.

About half The Class filled the Lowell House courtyard, clad in rented white dinner jackets, dancing into the wee hours to the mellow saxophone sounds of Les and Larry Elgart's orchestra.

The cameramen, who'd been forced into dinner jackets by Tony, took up their positions behind their cameras, the soundmen made a final check of the microphones, as Caitlin, apologizing profusely, clambered along an irritated row of people and collapsed panting by Taggie's side.

There were no girls in the bar -- only middle-aged women and bald men in dinner jackets.

Despite the heat, many of these older men wore dinner jackets and business suits.

Both windows to the front balcony were open and it was jammed with people, women in long low-cut sparkling dresses, men in fine black dinner jackets with flashing black satin lapels, the roar of conversation and merriment almost deafening, but deafening to whom, and a tray went by, held high by a waiter in a white coat who all but tripped over my legs, and there sat a child on the desk, a rosy child, staring at me, a dainty girl with quick black eyes and beautifully waved black hair, seven or eight, enchanting, precious.