dinner jacket

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A jacket, often white, corresponding to a tuxedo jacket. US,especially
    — Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.
  2. The formal suit, typically black, that includes this type of jacket. UK
    — [They] sat in a pen in the corner, smoking cigarettes and reading magazines; four or five girls in black silk dresses and the same number of slight effeminate young men in dinner-jackets.

词形变化

dinner jackets plural dinner-jacket alternative

词源

So called because it is worn by men to formal dinners.
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