1.     tuxedo                                                                                                                  
        men's formalwear with black satin lapels, silk-striped trousers and cummerbund

        Where does the word "tuxedo" come from?  (choose the one best answer)

A.    From its rather obvious resemblance to Aptenodytes Tuxidoa, the tuxedo penguin.
B.    Coined by Mark Twain, who once ridiculed formalware as "tucksied and tailored."
C.    After 16th-century hero Commodore Maximillian Tuxedor, 3rd Earl of Cummerbund.
D.    Worldwide wedding wear made its 1886 debut in Tuxedo Park, upstate New York.

            
Heir to the tobacco fortune, Pierre Lorillard IV was a blueblood New Yorker of French extraction who set the fashion world on its collective ear in 1886.

His family commissioned and wore the first of these future prom rentals to the Autumn Ball at his exclusive country club north of New York, in a village called Tuxedo Park.

This former Indian Territory is named for Algonquian Chief P’tauk-Seet (which means ‘wolf'). Both the “p” and the Chief are silent -- so D is correct.


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