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black tie
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  • Augustus wore a black suit, narrow lapels, perfectly tailored, over a light blue dress shirt and a thin black tie.†   (source)
  • He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.†   (source)
  • Jim Williams was decked out in black tie and Faberge cuff links.†   (source)
  • He was a short, stocky man in a black suit, black tie, white shirt, and a gold watch-chain that glinted in the light from the frosted windows.†   (source)
  • He's wearing gray pants, a crisp white shirt, and a black tie and carrying a slim attaché case.†   (source)
  • He chuckled again as he held out a cloak for her and a pair of ugly black tie shoes.†   (source)
  • "Informal, black tie, whatever's called for."†   (source)
  • Like a thief, he drifted from the shadows in a white buttondown shirt, black tie loosened to the third button, blue jeans and black army boots.†   (source)
  • He had a little black tie on.†   (source)
  • "You thought that would be a black tie occasion, did you?" he teased, touching the lapel of his tuxedo jacket.†   (source)
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  • The Reverend was dressed in a black suit and a black tie, as if he had just come from a funeral.†   (source)
  • It was delivered to us by a tall, slim man with impeccable slicked-back hair and a white coat with black tie.†   (source)
  • In his liver-colored uniform, black tie, and polished shoes he looked inevitably miscast in life, a man uncomfortable with the accoutrements of his profession, as if he had dressed for a costume party and now wandered about in the disguise.†   (source)
  • Early on that cold, dry Saturday, Vivaldo arrived, emphatically in black and white: white shirt, black tie, black suit, black shoes, black coat; and black hair, eyes, and eyebrows, and a dead-white, bone-dry face.†   (source)
  • He was always wearing stay-pressed slacks and a white shirt with a black tie thin as an exclamation mark.†   (source)
  • His body was perfectly round, stuffed into black polyester pants and a red T-shirt with a wide black tie.†   (source)
  • White killers in black tie!†   (source)
  • He wiped sweat from his forehead on his coat sleeve, slipped off the narrow black tie that hung open around his collar and put it in his pocket.†   (source)
  • I'm staring at the pattern on his black tie, which is flipped over his shoulder to avoid getting it wet, when he turns the water off and walks back to the bar.†   (source)
  • He stared at the man in the open tuxedo shirt with a black tie dangling around his neck.†   (source)
  • We dine at the captain's table tonight (black tie and evening dress) and begin our Pacific crossing.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in a midlength black leather jacket, blue shirt, black tie, and black trousers.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a black tie and his old blue seaman's suit.†   (source)
  • A soldier stepped into the cold sunshine, an army captain in full-dress uniform: polished black boots, regulationcreased pants, blindingly white shirt, and black tie under a blue wool jacket decorated with captain's bars, Ranger tab on his left shoulder, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, oak leaf clusters, and the fruit salad of ribbons and hardware that meant he had led troops into battle and tried his best to bring them all home.†   (source)
  • Some men could wear black tie and not look as elegant as Hunter Brown looked in jeans.†   (source)
  • So you saw Kwang in news spots talking with Hispanic youths at a boys' club in Washington Heights, amongst the revelers in black tie at a plush Manhattan hotel party, playing miniature golf with union bosses in Staten Island, walking the streets with black church leaders in Bedford-Stuyvesant.†   (source)
  • A black tie-on skirt fluttered and parted over her modest one-piece swimsuit, and her dark hair lifted from her shoulders in the breeze.†   (source)
  • He took his dark suit out of the clothespress and laid it over the back of a chair, and he put a white shirt and a black tie on the seat of the chair.†   (source)
  • I started to object when I saw them but Rufo said firmly, "She said 'informal' and that means black tie."†   (source)
  • Usually he wore suits as brown and hairy as his mustache, but this morning he wore a dark blue suit and a black tie.†   (source)
  • The Head of the Department is about forty, very correctly dressed: dark blue suit, a rosette of the Legion of Honour, starched collar, black tie, large brown moustache.†   (source)
  • He wore a white shirt and a black tie, like always.†   (source)
  • The three of them, the dog included, were wearing black tie.†   (source)
  • I, too, had put on a black tie that evening, having been invited by Mrs. Collins.†   (source)
  • The escorts were dressed in black tie, wing collar, tailcoats, and white gloves.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a dinner jacket, black tie, dress shirt.†   (source)
  • I pictured him waking up in the morning, staring at his closet, and thinking, Hmm …. hmm …. how about a white shirt and a black tie?†   (source)
  • Men in black tie and women in long dresses began milling around in front of the house shortly before seven-thirty.†   (source)
  • Williams had on black tie and dinner jacket with Russian imperial Faberge cuff links gleaming in the cuffs of his dress shirt.†   (source)
  • An only child, she was a member of one of Savannah's richest society families; her mother and father had always dressed for dinner—black tie and evening gown.†   (source)
  • The men would wear black tie.†   (source)
  • …Hoover went, some who were loyal supporters, others residing in the files, a few who were enemies-for-life but didn't know it yet, and Edgar and Clyde were in a mellow enough mood, despite reports from the site, seated in the plush rear seat in black tie of course and wearing their masks, like a suave and jaunty crime fighter out of the Sunday comics, a master bureaucrat by day who becomes dashing Maskman at night, cruising the streets in formal dress with his trusted right-hand man.†   (source)
  • When we had dressed, she stared at my black tie and asked if I was in mourning.†   (source)
  • Black tie.†   (source)
  • Eight-thirty, and black tie.†   (source)
  • The grandfather was dressed in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar.†   (source)
  • All the lights were turned up in the drawing room; and by the blazing fire George sat, in dinner jacket and black tie, cuddling the dachshund, Schuster, on his knee.†   (source)
  • A black derby accentuated the sharpness and sedentary pallor of his face; a jacket, loose on his tall spare frame, buttoned up in a V close to the throat; and above the V a tightly-knotted black tie was mounted in the groove of a high starched collar.†   (source)
  • Inside, on the turned-over heels of the yard shoes I hadn't remembered to change, I walked to the mirror to knot my black tie and saw backward, by the drape in the living room, the tense belly of Uncle Charlie, his sharp feet prepared, and sitting waiting in the oriental mix-up of brass, silk, wool, and all that gave the place so much power, Lucy, her mother, and Sam, observing me.†   (source)
  • Once you were Tolstoi's young man; now you are Byron's young man; perhaps you will be Meredith's young man; then you will visit Paris in the Easter vacation and come back wearing a black tie, some detestable Frenchman whom nobody has ever heard of.†   (source)
  • Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, shoes, socks, which give him the appearance of being in mourning.†   (source)
  • It was something of a rush, getting away, as at the last moment I had to call in at Emmanuel's place to borrow his black tie and mourning band.†   (source)
  • Black tie or white?†   (source)
  • He wore a soft felt hat with a pudding-basin crown and a very wide brim--he whisked it off the moment the coffin emerged from the doorway--trousers that concertina'd on his shoes, a black tie much too small for his high white double collar.†   (source)
  • He wore a vest open all the way, and a checked soft shirt, with a black tie hanging untidily.†   (source)
  • The edges of his rounded high collar were rough from frequent laundering, his black tie was threadbare, and he apparently didn't even bother with cuffs—Hans Castorp could tell from the limp way the coat sleeves draped around his wrists.†   (source)
  • As a young admirer had once said of him: "If anybody can tell a fellow just when to wear a black tie with evening clothes and when not to, it's Larry Lefferts."†   (source)
  • When the valet returned he put on a white shirt and collar and a black tie with a pearl; the cords of his reading-glasses passed through another pearl of the same size that swung a casual inch below.†   (source)
  • And the latter, now that he saw Clyde in an ordinary tuxedo with a smart pleated shirt and black tie, as opposed to the club uniform in which he had last seen him in Chicago, was inclined to think him even more attractive than before—not quite as negligible and unimportant as his son Gilbert had made out.†   (source)
  • Philip thought it was a severe ordeal that the young man was being exposed to, since Athelny, in his brown velvet jacket, flowing black tie, and red tarboosh, was a startling spectacle for an innocent electrical engineer.†   (source)
  • And its being me, Kostya Levin, who went to a ball in a black tie, and was refused by the Shtcherbatskaya girl, and who was intrinsically such a pitiful, worthless creature—that proves nothing; I feel sure Franklin felt just as worthless, and he too had no faith in himself, thinking of himself as a whole.†   (source)
  • His eyes on the black tie and clothes he asked with low respect: —Is there any…. no trouble I hope?†   (source)
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