Similar words: black tie, slack time, blacktop, black tea, blackthorn, necktie, black jack, blackjack. Meaning: adj. moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket black tie. n. 1. semiformal evening dress for men 2. a black bow tie worn with a dinner jacket.
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1 Evening meals were black-tie affairs attended by selected officers.
2 About 1, 500 people at the black-tie affair greeted Clinton with an ovation as he approached the podium.
3 It's going to be a black-tie dinner, so come in formal wear.
4 For the female mole attending a black-tie affair, surveillance equipment didn't have to be dowdy.
5 This is a black-tie event. People have to wear special formal clothes.
6 The UN secretary favoured a black-tie solution to the crisis.
7 A highlight will be a Bafta black-tie reception – where the couple will promote British creative talent from the worlds of film, television and video games.
8 For example, a black-tie event should mean on the funeral, nothing else.
9 A black-tie dinner in honor of Singh on Tuesday night will culminate the Obama administration's first hosting of a state visit.
10 Mr. Bi received the honor during a black-tie dinner at the Peninsula Hong Kong hotel.
11 Buffett's 50th birthday was a black-tie affair at New York's Metropolitan Club with 500 of his richest friends and associates.
12 True story: Last fall, rushing to a black-tie reception at the White House, Nasser, an Aussie, realized he hadn't packed his tuxedo.
13 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.
14 Black-tie dinners and champagne parties were being held in the capitals of Europe.
15 Marshall set only one condition on his gift: No black-tie dinners in his honor.
16 The Democratic mayor has thrown block parties for the masses and black-tie affairs for the elite.
17 I liked McCarthy more than I expected to, especially after he loaned me a pair of shoes to wear to the black-tie Women's Press Dinner,[www.Sentencedict.com] which I think the Dudman's got me invited to.
18 Instead, at Harrow School, founded in 1572, graduating boys have a black-tie 'Leavers Feast' with their parents in the school dining hall.
19 While ankle boots and cocktail dresses may be cool and trendy, clunky ankle boots will never replace refined pumps or strappy sandals for black-tie events.
20 More than a few of us do not know the difference between black-tie or white-tie events.
21 Since Taurus is highly touch-sensitive, have her choose a gorgeous black velvet gown for black-tie occasions or give her a tiny, sparkling evening clutch.
22 As Venice prepares to host its famous carnival next month, the lagoon city's inhabitants have more than masked balls and black-tie parties on their minds.
23 But I do like knowing that when I go to a black-tie affair clutching the satin evening bag that holds exactly one key and a pen, Johannes is the keeper of my Kleenex, lipstick and comb.
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