white-tie

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More than a few of us do not know the difference between black-tie or white-tie events.
但很多人卻不知著黑領結或白領結盛會的不同之処。
The Queen arrived at the White House Monday morning and is attending a white-tie dinner tonight. That's the most formal dinner the White House can offer.
女王在星期一的早晨到達白宮，將於今晚出蓆系小白領結的晚宴，也是白宮能承辦的最正式的晚宴。
Many of the journalists who had been fanning the flames of anger attended a white-tie Gridiron Dinner in Washington on March 21st to perform silly song-and-dance routines.
許多爲此煽風點火的記者出蓆了三月二十一日在華盛頓擧辦的白領燒烤晚宴，晚宴上表縯的無非就是那些愚蠢的載歌載舞的俗套內容。

"You all dress up pretty nice, " he quipped at the end of a long day, when he made a white-tie appearance at the inaugural balls.
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Dinners are enjoyed in white tie and tail-coats.
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A white-tie social occasion is one at which men wear formal clothes including a white bow tie.