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BLACK-TIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does black-tie mean?
• BLACK-TIE (adjective)
The adjective BLACK-TIE has 1 sense:
1. moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
Familiarity information: BLACK-TIE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
Synonyms:
black-tie; semi-formal; semiformal
Context example:
a black-tie dinner
Similar:
formal (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress))
Context examples
You may attend an industry event, such as a black-tie award show, debut screening of a movie, or a very special concert that is impossible to get tickets to—but you did.
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