Other forms: tuxedos
A tuxedo is the black-and-white formal suit worn with a bow tie. Wear a tuxedo, hire a tuxedo, black tie.
This is the American name; the British call it a dinner jacket, and black tie is the dress code that requires one. The satin on the lapels and the stripe down the leg are the marks of it. It is named after Tuxedo Park in New York, where the fashion took hold.
1nountuxedoA formal black-and-white evening suit.
“He wore a tuxedo and bow tie to the wedding.”
tuxedo is a suit.
Also accepted in games: tux, dinner jacket
Named after Tuxedo Park, New York, where the style took hold in the 1880s. The place name is from a Lenape word.
From Tuxedo Park, New York, US, where the fashion is often said to have originated, the village in turn likely from an Eastern Algonquian language (umu -), from Lenape, tucsedo or p'tuxseepu, ("crooked water" or "crooked river").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA