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noun, masculine

smoking

/smɔ.kiŋ/

noun, masculine/smɔ.kiŋ/plural: smokings

tuxedo, dinner jacket

Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.