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black tie
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black tie as in:  black-tie event

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  • When work was completed in 1970, he gave a black-tie Christmas party and invited the cream of Savannah society.†  (source)
  • That same night I was invited to a lavish black-tie party in honor of the beautiful and glamorous Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman.†  (source)
  • But this was a formal, black-tie wedding: Tuxedos and gowns were required for guests, not just the wedding party.†  (source)
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  • He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.†  (source)
  • More than a thousand people gathered for a black-tie party at a tent set up in the parking lot.†  (source)
  • "You thought that would be a black tie occasion, did you?" he teased, touching the lapel of his tuxedo jacket.†  (source)
  • He went back to selling antiques, and with the court's permission he traveled to New York to attend a black-tie party for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition of Queen Elizabeth's collection of Faberge.†  (source)
  • He chuckled again as he held out a cloak for her and a pair of ugly black tie shoes.†  (source)
  • Both are black-tie.†  (source)
  • He had a little black tie on.†  (source)
  • Engraved invitations to Jim Williams's black-tie Christmas party began arriving in the mailboxes of Savannah's better homes the first week in December.†  (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)
  • It was delivered to us by a tall, slim man with impeccable slicked-back hair and a white coat with black tie.†  (source)
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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)
black tie = a tie that is black
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