white tie and tails

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   formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men

   Synonymsdress suitfull dresstailcoattail coattailswhite tie

   Broaderformalwear

   Partsswallow-tailed coat

Questions about white tie and tails

What does white tie and tails mean?

white tie and tails means "formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men".

What is another word for white tie and tails?

Close synonyms include dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tail coat, tails. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white tie and tails a common word?

white tie and tails is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.