black-tie
- s moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
a black-tie dinner
- What is your favorite thing to wear? Marianne Ross AUSTIN, TEXAS There is no better feeling for me than to go to a black-tie event in a classic tuxedo Every man looks great in a .
- If Sicko doesn't win over the audience at tonight's black-tie world premiere, Moore's francophilia should do the trick.
- Competitions in foil, saber and pe are black-tie occasions Cyrano de Bergerac hung over the parapet, taunting the standards of 20th century swordsmanship.