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Grapepark Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

tuxedo

Is "tuxedo" another name for "formal clothes"?
  

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1. A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions. Also called dinner jacket.

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  • A man's dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions.
  • Also called dinner jacket.
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  • A complete outfit including this jacket, trousers usually with a silken stripe down the side, a bow tie, and often a cummerbund.
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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.
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View tuxedos here.

They are certainly formal clothes, but not the only formal clothes.

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