white tie

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a man's white BOWTIE, also used to mean very formal evening dress for men: dressed in white tie and tails

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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white tieEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus white tieEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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white tie