white-tied

Outside, The People walk the streets with far less certainty and mirth than that demonstrated by the white-tied crowd sipping champagne inside.

Steven Weber: Two Candidates Walk into a Bar... 2008

SCOTT SIMON, host: When Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to compose something for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the white-tied audience may not have expected something quite like this.

Revisiting Bernstein's Immodest 'Mass' 2008

SCOTT SIMON, host: When Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to compose something for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the white-tied audience may not have expected something quite like this.

Revisiting Bernstein's Immodest 'Mass' 2008

SCOTT SIMON, host: When Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to compose something for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the white-tied audience may not have expected something quite like this.

Revisiting Bernstein's Immodest 'Mass' 2008

I asked the nearest white-tied and black-tailed man who happened to be standing next to me.

Francis Bacon (1909–1992) Blackwood, Caroline 1992

How many times, Rue wondered, had Andy, top-hatted and white-tied and correct, escorted Crystal?

The Glass Slipper Eberhart, Mignon G 1938

Driving, white-tied -- and waist-coated, in his father's car, he thought with a certain contumely of the younger Ventnor girl, whom he had been wont to consider pretty before he knew Phyllis.

Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900

Driving, white-tied -- and waist-coated, in his father's car, he thought with a certain contumely of the younger Ventnor girl, whom he had been wont to consider pretty before he knew Phyllis.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Then a hoary white-tied notability on the platform raised his might arm very high, and a bugle called, and a voice that had filled fields in exciting times of religious revival floated in thunder across the enclosed Square, easily dominating it --

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

Three of the white-tied and three of the black-tied sacks were selected by the field-cornet, who told his men to shoulder them, and they were borne off at once to the iron-roofed hut which was used as a store.

The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War George Manville Fenn 1870