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White tie

noun

Bow tie worn as part of a man's formal evening dress.

Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men. Synonyms: dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tailcoat, tails, white tie and tails.

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"White tie" Quotes from Famous Books

... and be thought a quitter. So I'm taking the seven-one to New York and will be home day after tomorrow. I wish you would pack my things up for me when you get time. There isn't any great hurry. I've got enough for awhile. You're to keep the racket and the blue and white tie and the opal matrix pin and anything else you like to remember me by. Please do this, Tim. I'll write from home and tell you about sending the trunk. I'm awfully sorry, Tim, and I'm going to miss you like anything, but I shan't ever come ...

— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour

... can conceive of a seraph in an Eton suit, a low-cut white waistcoat, and a white tie, there was something ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... (sleeveless dresses were worn by bridesmaids at an evening wedding recently) that the bride of twenty-five years can appear, if she chooses, in a low-cut short- sleeved dinner dress and diamonds in the evening. As for the groom, he should be in full evening dress, immaculate white tie, and pearl- colored kid gloves. He plays, as he does at the wedding, but a secondary part. Indeed, it has been jocosely said that he sometimes poses as a victim. In savage communities and among the birds it is the male who wears the fine clothes; in Christian society it is the ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... also want Parson Smawley. I want him to get a car and come over to the Gayfield House. Tell him I count on him. And he's to wear black and a white tie." ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... early. My father was in his boots, his trousers, his white tie, and his dressing-gown. My mother also was half dressed. It seemed to me that the servants took greater pains in waiting on me and showed me more respect. I even remember that Marie said, "The hairdresser has come, Madame." Madame! ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

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