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tux⋅e⋅do
[tuhk-see-doh] 
–noun, plural -dos.
| 1. | Also called dinner jacket. a man's jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark-blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels. |
| 2. | the complete semiformal outfit, including this jacket, dark trousers, often with silk stripes down the sides, a bow tie, and usually a cummerbund. |
Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; short for Tuxedo coat, after country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
1890–95, Americanism; short for Tuxedo coat, after country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
Related forms:
tux⋅e⋅doed, adjective
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| tux·e·do (tŭk-sē'dō) n. pl. tux·e·dos or tux·e·does
[Short for Tuxedo coat, after a country club at Tuxedo Park, a village of southeast New York.] tux·e'doed adj. |
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tuxedo
man's evening dress for semiformal occasions, 1889, named for Tuxedo Park, N.Y., site of a country club where it first was worn in 1886.
"The Wolf tribe in New York was called in scorn by other Algonquians tuksit: round foot, implying that they easily fell down in surrender. In their region thus came the names Tuxedo and Tuxedo Lake, which were acquired by the Griswold family in payment of a debt. There the family established the exclusive Tuxedo Club, and there in the late 1880s Griswold Lorillard first appeared in a dinner jacket without tails, a tuxedo. By a twist of slang, one may now refer to a man in a tuxedo as a 'wolf." [Shipley]But in another version of the story, p'tuksit was the Algonquian word for "wolf," the animal, perhaps from the shape of its paws. Short form tux is attested from 1922.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Tuxedo database, networking
Cross-platform distributed transaction monitor middleware marketed by BEA systems. Tuxedo supports the production of scalable client-server applications and the coordination of transactions spanning heterogeneous databases, operating systems, and hardware.
BEA Home.
[Connection with Novell, Inc.?]
(2003-01-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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