What is "white tie and tails"

Usage examples of "white tie and tails".

His white tie and tails were again too big, emphasizing his Charlie Chaplin air of a dressed-up vagrant, despite his severe stiff saluting and the cheers and applause of beautiful women and important-looking men, all stretching their necks to stare worshipfully.

Before long they were joined by Jeff, looking superb in a tuxedo that fit much better than Nick's rented white tie and tails.

He wandered on with the other guests -- they, like him, wore white tie and tails, or, if women, floor-length gowns -- and felt ill at ease, despite the tranquilizing effect of the stelazine.

He always gave the impression of wearing a white tie and tails, even when he was in dungarees and scraping down a piece of furniture.

The count was wearing white tie and tails, beautifully tailored to his enormously fat figure.

Every man there wore white tie and tails, yet the variety of hair length and style and the even greater variety in beard, mustache, and sideburns kept them individuals, recognizable and interesting to the eye.

The three Cheyenne were moving well, too-four of us going hell-for-leather, more or less in line abreast, three in paint and feathers, waving lances and guns, and one in white tie and tails, somewhat out of crease.

It will be formal dress, white tie and tails, but the atmosphere will be cordial.

He opened a humidor, selected a cigar, lighted it, and took the first long, savory draw as the elevator stopped and Victor Tremont stepped out in his white tie and tails.

Trim, still handsome at fifty-five, he wore white tie and tails as if they were entirely natural to him.

Fully dressed in white tie and tails, I held Sadie's whisperjewel, and the breath of Walcote House sighed out to me in whispers of holly and dark.

Lockhart's appearance in white tie and tails and his general air of incoherent embar­.

Lockhart's appearance in white tie and tails and his general air of incoherent embarrassment had a profound effect upon her, and when during the meal he managed to stammer that his grandfather was dining in their stateroom Mrs Sandicott's suburban soul thrilled to the sound.

Cristopher hovered in the doorway, achingly adult in his formal white tie and tails.

At the gate was a man in white tie and tails, complete with cape and top hat, who waved them through with an elegant bow.