dinner jacket
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.19 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade."
- "He was dressed in a gray dinner jacket and matching trousers."
- "[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."
- "Mr Lackersteen was even wearing a dinner-jacket—white, because of the season—and was completely sober. The boiled shirt and piqué waistcoat seemed to hold him upright and stiffen his moral fibre like a breastplate."
- "It was a dinner-jacket evening—not tails, because they would only be three—and though he had respected such niceties for years he found them suddenly ridiculous."