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Tailcoat vs Tux - What's the difference?

tailcoat | tux |

As nouns the difference between tailcoat and tux

is that tailcoat is a formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat while tux is a tuxedo.

As a proper noun Tux is

a cuddly cartoon penguin, the official Linux mascot.

tailcoat

English

Alternative forms

* tail coat (nonstandard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
  • Any coat with similar tails.

    • Derived terms

    * tails

    Anagrams

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    tux

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (colloquial) A tuxedo.
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes .