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black-tie

ADJECTIVE
  1. moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
    he wore semiformal attire
    a black-tie dinner

How To Use black-tie In A Sentence

  • Astrid Stawiarz for The Wall Street Journal Chef Jacques Pepin "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman, who created the five-foot cake for the evening, stood out among the black-tie attired guests in jeans, a T-shirt and a leather jacket. Raising a Toast to Culinary Masters
  • But it would be declasse to reveal a dark thatch of hair at a black-tie event. Remembering when manly men donned formal wear - with all the frills
  • You have written about nightclubs, office parties, health clubs and skiing holidays, and now about the black-tie world of charity dinners and cummerbunds.
  • Nobody in his right mind would wear a Red Sox button to a black-tie party, right? ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • The one thing they all had in common - aside from the black-tie dress - was a love for the unique artist with the shock of silvery hair.
  • The magnificent surroundings of Ripon Cathedral will form the backdrop to a black-tie gourmet dinner in September for 220 guests.
  • More often than not, he turns up at black-tie dinners dressed in a polo shirt, black corduroys, and sneakers. Art's New Pecking Order
  • Buffett's 50th birthday was a black-tie affair at New York's Metropolitan Club with 500 of his richest friends and associates.
  • Last December, at a black-tie gala in New York's Plaza Hotel, Bank of America Corp. CEO Kenneth Lewis told a crowd of bankers to expect a humbler industry to emerge from the wreckage.
  • Evening meals were black-tie affairs attended by selected officers.
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